Abstract The Greek Cypriot speech community is diglossic; Cypriot Greek is the naturally
acquired variety and Standard Greek is the superposed standard. This paper investigates …

This paper presents the results of the first study within a perceptual dialectology framework
in the Greek-speaking community in Cyprus. Thirty participants from three age groups of …

In the literature, the term code-mixing/switching refers to instances of language mixing in
which speakers/signers combine properties of two or more languages in their utterances …

This study is concerned with the coherence of a newly-emerged standard variety of Italian,
ie, the so-called neo-standard Italian, as compared with the traditional standard variety. Our …

Humans are intuitively good at providing judgments about what forms part of their native
language and what does not. Although such judgments are robust, consistent, and reliable …

Variation involving a switch between pre-and post-verbal placement of pronominal object
clitics in a single syntactic environment within a language is unexpected. The rationale why …

The aim of this study was to longitudinally examine mean length of utterance in words (MLU-
w) and number of different words (NDW) and their association in children speaking Cypriot …

Linguistic coherence—the co-variation of language variants within speaker repertoires—has
been proposed as a key process driving the divergence of language dialects. Previous …

Nicosia is a divided European capital; the two major ethnic communities on the island,
Greek and Turkish Cypriots, were separated de facto following the war of 1974. The inner …

Research on language in Cyprus is relatively recent. The first wave emphasized the
sociolinguistic situation of the local language variety/dialect, which was supplemented by …