Mary Baltazani

Funded projects

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• 03/2024 – 03/2027. CI

        Mapping Prosodic Convergence in the Eastern Mediterranean. Funding body: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK. 

• 01/2022 – 12/2023. CI                                                                                                                                                                                                   Mapping prosodic convergence in Cyprus: a geo-historical acoustic investigation of the effects of insularity at a linguistic crossroads.  Funding body: The John Fell Oxford University Press Fund, UK.

• 06/2018 – 03/2022. PI                                                                                                                                                                                        Intonation and diachrony: A phonetic investigation of the effects of language contact on intonational patterns. Funding body: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK. 

• 04/2016 – 04/2017. CI                                                                                                                                                                                            Language and identity of Greeks and Turks in the 1920s: a historical-acoustic investigation of Turkish influence on Greek phonetic patterns. Funding body: The John Fell Oxford University Press Fund, UK.

• 2016 – 2018. CI                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Components of Intonation and the structure of intonational meaning. Funding body: British Academy Small Research Grant, UK.

• 2014 – 2016. CI                                                                                                                                                                                                                     SpeakGreek: A biofeedback speech training tool for Greek segmental and suprasegmental features. Funding body: NSRF European Regional Development Grant, Greece.

• 09/2012 –  12/2015. PI                                                                                                                                                                                                         Vowels of greek dialects: phonetic and phonological analysis, dialect index construction, and diffusion of results through educational material. Funding body: NSRF European Regional Development Grant, Greece.

• 2009  – 2010. CI                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Lost in Intonation: The interaction of intonation and meaning in the speech of L1, L2 and heritage speakers of Greek. Illinois-WUN International Development Grant, USA.

• 2008 – 2010. PI                                                                                                                                                                                                            Pilot for the construction of a small database of speech data from the dialect of Epirus. University of Ioannina Research Council Grant,     Greece.

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Conference, workshop, and exhibition organisation

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• ProVar2021. This workshop was part of the Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2021 (PaPE 2021) Conference.

• Echoes of the past: Turkish, Venetian, and Greek. This exhibition took place on 27th Oct 2019 at the Hellenic Centre in London.

• BAAP 2014. The 2014 meeting of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians was hosted on 7-9 April 2014 by the Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford.

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Publications

To appear/in press​

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• Baltazani, M. Intonational Phrase. In Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics (EGLL). Giannakis, G.K., V. Bubenik, E. Crespo, C. Golston, A. Lianeri, S. Luraghi & S. Matthaios (eds.). Brill, Leiden & Boston.

• Baltazani, M. Pitch. In Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics (EGLL). Giannakis, G.K., V. Bubenik, E. Crespo, C. Golston, A. Lianeri, S. Luraghi & S. Matthaios (eds.). Brill, Leiden & Boston.

• Baltazani, M. Sandhi. In Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics (EGLL). Giannakis, G.K., V. Bubenik, E. Crespo, C. Golston, A. Lianeri, S. Luraghi & S. Matthaios (eds.). Brill, Leiden & Boston.

• Baltazani, M. Prosodic Word. In Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics (EGLL). Giannakis, G.K., V. Bubenik, E. Crespo, C. Golston, A. Lianeri, S. Luraghi & S. Matthaios (eds.). Brill, Leiden & Boston.

 

2024

• Baltazani, M, S. Armostis, E. Payne. 2024. The intonation of polar questions in Cypriot Arabic: Prosodic contact in an endangered language. Proceedings Speech Prosody 2024.

2023

• O' Rourke, E. & M. Baltazani. Sociophonetics and Intonation: A proposal for “Socioprosodics” as a new field. In Christopher Strelluf (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics, 23–54. Routledge.

• Przedlacka, J., M. Baltazani, S. Armostis, Ö. Ünal-Logačev, J. Coleman. 2023. Continuation rises in pre-1974 Cypriot Greek. Proceedings 20th ICPhS, Prague.

• Nicolaidis, K. & M. Baltazani. 2023. Temporal determinants of phrasing in coordinated structures in Greek. Proceedings 20th ICPhS, Prague.

• Payne, E., S. Armostis, E. Lombardo, R. Simon & M. Baltazani. 2023. Prosody in Contact: Polar Questions in Cypriot varieties of Greek and Turkish. Proceedings 20th ICPhS, Prague.

• Baltazani, M., J. Przedlacka, Ö. Ünal-Logačev, P. Logačev & J. Coleman. 2023. Intonation of Greek in contact with Turkish: a diachronic study. Language Variation and Change, 34(3), 271–303. doi:10.1017/S0954394522000126

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2022​

• Baltazani, M. & K. Nicolaidis. 2022. Φωνητική [Phonetics]. Chapter in M. Lekakou &  N. Topintzi (eds.) Εισαγωγή στη Γλωσσολογία: Θεμελιώδεις έννοιες και βασικοί κλάδοι με έμφαση στην ελληνική γλώσσα [Introduction to Linguistics: Fundamental concepts and basic disciplines with an emphasis on the Greek language]. Gutenberg, Athens, 23–90.

• Baltazani, M., J. Coleman, E. Passoni & J. Przedlacka. 2022. Echoes of past contact: Venetian influence on Cretan Greek intonation (accepted manuscript). Language and Speech. May 2022. doi:10.1177/00238309221091939.

• Baltazani, M. & K. Nicolaidis. 2022. Phrasing and speech rate effects on segmental and prosodic variability in Greek. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 896-900. doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-182

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2021

• Nicolaidis, K. & M. Baltazani. 2021. Phonetic Variability Of Rhotic Realization: Evidence From Greek Voiced /Cr/ Clusters. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Greek Linguistics, article 3808.

• Nicolaidis, K. & M. Baltazani. Effects of prosodic position on the articulatory and acoustic properties of domain-final /r/. In Areti-Maria Sougari & Valandis Bardzokas (eds.) Selected papers of 24 ISTAL, Thessaloniki, Greece, 618–644. 

• Nicolaidis, K. & M. Baltazani. 2021. IPA chart (Greek translation). On https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/IPAcharts/IPA_chart_trans/IPA_charts_T.html.

• Stavropoulou, P & M. Baltazani. 2021. The prosody of correction and contrast (pdf of submission). In Journal of Pragmatics, 171, 76–100. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.10.004.

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2020

• D’ Imperio, M., B. Gili Fivela, M., Baltazani, B. Post, & A. Vella. 2020. Southern Europe. In C. Gussenhoven & A. Chen (Eds.),The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody. Oxford University Press.

• Baltazani, M., Przedlacka, J., Coleman, J. 2020. Intonation of Greek–Turkish contact: a real-time diachronic study. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 730–734, DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-149.

• Arvaniti, A., Baltazani, M., Gryllia, S. 2020. The contribution of pitch accents and boundary tones to intonation meaning. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 356–360, DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-73.

• Baltazani, M., S. Gryllia, & A. Arvaniti. 2020. The intonation and pragmatics of Greek wh-questions (accepted version).  Language and Speech, Vol. 63(1) 56–94. DOI: 10.1177/0023830918823236.

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2019

• Nicolaidis, K., Baltazani, M., Chionidou, A. 2019. Φωνηεντική ποικιλία σε ελληνικές διαλέκτους: μια ακουστική και ηλεκτροπαλατογραφική μελέτη [Phonetic variability in Greek dialects: an acoustic and electropalatographic study]. In Archakis, A., Koutsoukos, N., Papazachariou, D. & Xydopoulos, G. (eds.), Γλωσσική ποικιλία [Linguistic variability], Athens, 397–422.

• Baltazani, M., J. Przedlacka & J. Coleman. 2019. Intonation in contact: Asia Minor Greek and Turkish. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 1665–1669). 
  Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. 

• Gryllia, S., M. Baltazani & A. Arvaniti. 2019. Evidence for the compositionality of tunes and intonational meaning. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 2841–2845). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

• Przedlacka, J., M. Baltazani & J. Coleman. 2019. Intonational variation and diachrony: Greek contact varieties. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 2739–2743). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

• Baltazani, M. & E. Kainada. 2019. The Cretan fall: an analysis of the declarative intonation melody in the Cretan dialect. In Janse, Mark, Brian D. Joseph, Ioanna Kappa, Angela Ralli, and Marina Tzakosta, (eds.) MGDLT 7 : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. Patras: University of Crete, 38–48. http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8606733.

• Baltazani, M., J. Przedlacka & J. Coleman.  2019. Greek in contact: A historical-acoustic investigation of Asia Minor Greek intonational patterns. In Janse, Mark, Brian D. Joseph, Ioanna Kappa, Angela Ralli, and Marina Tzakosta, (eds.) MGDLT 7 : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. Patras: University of Crete, 49–58. http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8606733.

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2018

• Gryllia, Stella, Mary Baltazani, Amalia Arvaniti. 2018. The role of pragmatics and politeness in explaining prosodic variability. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody: 158–162.

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2016

• Baltazani, M., Kainada, E., Revithiadou, A., & Topintzi, N. 2016. Vocoid-driven processes: Palatalization and glide hardening in Greek and its dialects. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 1(1), 23. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.108.

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2015

• Baltazani, M., E. Kainada, A. Lengeris and K. Nicolaidis. 2015. The prenuclear field matters: questions and statements in Standard Modern Greek. (manuscript) In Maria Wolters, Judy Livingstone, Bernie Beattie, Rachel Smith, Mike MacMahon, Jane Stuart-Smith, James M. Scobbie (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2015, Glasgow, UK, August 10-14, 2015. University of Glasgow 2015, ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4.

• Lengeris, A., E. Kainada, M. Baltazani and P. Iverson. 2015. Dialectal effects on the perception of Greek vowels. (manuscript) In Maria Wolters, Judy Livingstone, Bernie Beattie, Rachel Smith, Mike MacMahon, Jane Stuart-Smith, James M. Scobbie (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2015, Glasgow, UK, August 10-14, 2015. University of Glasgow 2015, ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4.

• Baltazani, M. and E. Kainada. 2015. Drifting without an anchor; how pitch accents withstand vowel loss. (manuscript) Language and Speech, 58(1), 84–115.

 

2014

• Arvaniti, A., M. Baltazani and S. Gryllia. 2014. The pragmatic interpretation of intonation in Greek wh-questions. (manuscript) In Campbell, Gibbon, and Hirst (eds.). Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, 1144–1148.

• Nicolaidis, K. and M. Baltazani. 2014. An investigation of acoustic and articulatory variability during rhotic production in Greek. In Kotzoglou, G., K. Nikolou, E. Karantzola, K. Frantzi, I. Galantomos, M. Georgalidou, V. Kourti-Kazoulis, Ch. Papadopoulou & E. Vlachou (eds.), Selected papers, 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Rhodes, Greece, 1192–1207.

• Kainada, E. and M. Baltazani. 2014. The vocalic system of the dialect of Ipiros. In Kotzoglou, G., K. Nikolou, E. Karantzola, K. Frantzi, I. Galantomos, M. Georgalidou, V. Kourti-Kazoulis, Ch. Papadopoulou & E. Vlachou (eds.), Selected papers, 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Rhodes, Greece, 591–602.

• Baltazani, M, E. Kainada, K. Nikolaidis, A. Sfakianaki, A. Lengeris, E. Tsiartsioni, D. Papazachariou, M. Giakoumelou. 2014. Cross dialectal vowel spaces in Greek. 14th Laboratory Phonology Conference, Tokyo (poster presentation).

 

2013

• Baltazani, M. and N. Topintzi. 2013. On some phonetic and phonological properties of the Greek glide. In Z. Gavriilidou, A. Efthymiou, E. Thomadaki and P. Kambakis-Vougiouklis (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics: 153–166.

• Baltazani, M. and K. Nicolaidis. 2013. Production of the Greek rhotic in initial and intervocalic position: an acoustic and electropalatographic study In Z. Gavriilidou, A. Efthymiou, E. Thomadaki and P. Kambakis-Vougiouklis (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics:141–152.

• Kainada E. and M. Baltazani. 2013. Evaluating methods for eliciting dialectal speech. In M. Janse, B. D. Joseph, A. Ralli and M. Bagriacik (eds.), Online Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, Patras, 101–123. [link for the Proceedings]

• Baltazani, M. and K. Nicolaidis. 2013. The many faces of r. In Rhotics. New data and perspectives. L. Spreafico and A. Vietti (eds.), Bozen: BU Press.

• Topintzi, N. and M. Baltazani. 2013. Where the glide meets the palatals. In Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 20th ISTAL , 177–196. London: Versita de Gruyter.

• Baltazani, M., I. Fudos, E. Kainada, I. Kappa, A. Lengeris, M. Mattheoudakis, G. Mikros, K. Nicolaidis, D. Papazachariou, A. Revythiadou, N. Topintzi, M. Tzakosta. 2013. Vocalect: A Thalis project for the analysis of dialectal vocalic systems. Poster presented in the 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Rhodes, Greece.

• Kainada E., and M. Baltazani. 2013. Segmental anchoring and coping with vowel loss. In Old World Conference in Phonology 10, Istanbul, 16-19 January 2013.

• Nicolaidis, K. and M. Baltazani. 2013. The Greek [r] in rC sequences: an acoustic and electropalatographic study. In Selected Papers of the 20th International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 157–176. London: Versita de Gruyter.

 

2012

• Alexopoulou, T. and M. Baltazani. 2012. Focus in Greek wh-questions. In Information Structure: Contrasts and Positions, A. Neeleman and I. Kucerova (eds.), 206–246, CUP.

• Topintzi, N. and M. Baltazani. 2012. The acoustics of high-vowel loss in a Northern Greek dialect and typological implications. In Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity, P. Hoole, L. Bombien, M. Pouplier, Ch. Mooshammer, and B. Kühnert (eds.), Interface Explorations series, de Gruyter, 373–402.

 

2011

• Topintzi, N. and M. Baltazani. 2011. The glide's big fat Greek wedding... to the palatals. In 8th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP8), Marrakech, Morocco, 19-21 January 2011.

• Xydopoulos, G., M. Baltazani, T. Tsangalidis and G. Giannakis (eds.) 12 Κείμενα για τη Γλωσσολογία (12 Papers on Linguistics). Selected Papers from the Annual Linguistics Conference at the University of Ioannina, Greece, 2004-2008. Published by Kondyli, Athens, Greece.

• Nicolaidis, K. and M. Baltazani. 2011. An electropalatographic and acoustic study of the Greek rhotic in Cr clusters. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, W.S. Lee & E. Zee (eds.), City University of Hong-Kong, 1474–1478.

• Gryllia, S., A. Arvaniti, M. Baltazani, E. Adamou, M. Terkourafi, N. Vergis, and S. Tsiplakou. 2011. Identification and social evaluation of dialectal Greek intonation. Presentation in the 11th International conference on Greek Linguistics.

• S. Gryllia, A. Arvaniti, M. Baltazani, E. Adamou, M. Terkourafi, N. Vergis, S. Tsiplakou. 2011. On the perception of varieties of Greek: Results from an identification and a rating experiment. Presentation in the 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, 29 June – 1 July 2011, Freiburg.

 

2010

• Tsakali, V. and M. Baltazani. 2010. Acquisition of Quantificational Domain. In Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2009, J. Costa, A. Castro, M. Lobo and F. Pratas (eds.), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 472–482.

• Baltazani, M., N. Topintzi and T. Tsangalidis (Guest Editors). 2010. Mapping asymmetries: Phonology, Syntax and Information Structure. Special Issue, The Linguistic Review, vol.  27-3.

• Baltazani, M. and N. Topintzi. 2010. The phonology and phonetics of glides in North-Western Greek Dialects. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, A. Ralli, B. Joseph, M. Janse, A. Karasimos (eds.), 37–51.

• Christou, T. and M. Baltazani. 2010. The phonetic realization of stressed vowels in the dialect of Kato Pedina in Ioannina. In Studies in Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, M. Janse, B. D. Joseph, P. Pavlou, A. Ralli and S. Armosti (eds.), Nicosia: Kykkos Cultural Research Centre, 15–26.

 

2009

• Baltazani, M. 2009. Acoustic characterization of the Greek r in clusters. In Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the 18th International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, Volume 1, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Salonica.

• Baltazani, M. 2009. Cross-dialectal phonetic variability of [r] in Greek. Poster presented in the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), at the University of Copenhagen, June 2009.

• Baltazani, M., G. Giannakis, T. Tsangalidis and G. Xydopoulos (Eds.). 2009. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Greek Linguistics (electronic). Editors for the Selected Proceedings from the 8th International Conference of Greek Linguistics held at the University of Ioannina, Greece, 2007. 

 

2008

• Baltazani, M. and G. Efthymiou. 2008. The realization of /t/ in the dialect of Epirus . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics , CD-ROM, 30–40. With G. Efthymiou. [Available online]

 

2007

• 'Baltazani, M. 2007. Intonation of polar questions and the location of nuclear stress in Greek. Chapter in Tones and Tunes,Volume II: Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody, Carlos Gussenhoven & Tomas Riad (eds.), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, p. 387–405.

• Baltazani, M. 2007. Prosodic rhythm and the status of vowel reduction in Greek. In Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the 17th International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, Volume 1, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Salonica, p. 343.

• Baltazani, M. 2007. Prosodic boundaries and syllable duration. Presented at OCP 4, 2007, Rhodes. [ppt presentation]

• Baltazani, M. 2007. Eisagogi sti Fonitiki  [Introduction to Phonetics]. Translation into Greek and adaptation of the textbook A Course in Phonetics, by Peter Ladefoged. Published by Patakis, Athens.

 

2006

• Baltazani, M. 2006. Characteristics of pre-nuclear pitch accents in statements and yes-no questions in Greek. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Athens, 28-30 August 2006, 81–84.

• Baltazani, M. 2006. Effects of stress on intonational structure in Greek. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany, 2-5 May 2006.

• Baltazani, M. 2006. Intonation and pragmatic interpretation of negation in Greek. Journal of Pragmatics, 38, Issue 10, p. 1658–1676, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2005.03.016

• Baltazani, M. 2006. Focusing, prosodic phrasing, and Hiatus resolution in Greek. In Laboratory Phonology 8, Luis Goldstein, Douglas Whalen, Catherine Best (eds.), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 473–494.

• Baltazani, M. 2006. On /s/-voicing in Greek. In A. Galani & G. Tsoulas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, York, UK. http://icgl7.project.uoi.gr/Baltazani.pdf 

 

2005 

• Arvaniti, A. and M. Baltazani. 2005. Intonational Analysis and Prosodic Annotation of Greek Spoken Corpora. Chapter in Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing, Jun, S-A (ed.), Oxford University Press, 84–117.

• Baltazani, M. 2005. Phonetic variability of the Greek rhotic sound. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI) 05. Barcelona, Spain.

 

2003

• Baltazani, M. 2003. Broad Focus across sentence types in Greek. 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2003), 89-92, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.2003-58.

• Baltazani, M. 2003. Pragmatics, intonation and word order in Greek. Prosodic Interfaces workshop, Nantes, France.

• Baltazani, M. 2003. Effects of prosodic phrasing on Hiatus across words in Greek. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Salonica, p. 239–248.

 

2002

• Baltazani, M. (2002). Quantifier scope and the role of intonation in Greek. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.

• Baltazani, M. 2002. The prosodic structure of quantificational sentences in Greek. Proceedings of the 38th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Andronis, M., E. Debenport, A. Pycha and K. Yoshimura (eds.), 63–78.

 

2000

• Arvaniti, A. and M. Baltazani. 2000. Greek ToBI: A System For The Annotation Of Greek Speech Corpora. In Proceedings of Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), vol 2: 555–562.

 

1999

• Baltazani, M. and S.A. Jun. 1999. Topic and focus intonation in Greek. In John J. Ohala, Yoko Hasegawa, Manjari Ohala, Daniel Granville, and Ashlee C. Bailey (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 2: 1305–1308. ISBN 1-56396-898-3

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1998

• Baltazani, M. 1998. Focus in Greek (manuscript). Unpublished MA thesis, UCLA.

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