Past projects

STUDIES 2009 | ΜΕΛΕΤΕΣ 2009, “Ofitika Pontic: A documentation project with special emphasis on the diachrony and synchrony of the dialect”, University of the Aegean, Department of Mediterranean Studies
[URL: http://www.latsis-foundation.org/gr/32/anazhthsh_arxeiou_meleton.html]

Duration: January, 1 2009 – December 15, 2009
Principal investigators: Dr. Anthi Revithiadou and Dr. Vassilios Spyropoulos
Budget: 12.000€
Funding Agency: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation

Ofitika Pontic (OP) is a Greek dialect of the Pontic dialect group which is currently spoken in a few isolated pockets in Νorthern Greece by Pontian Greeks who originate from the Of area, and also in about thirty villages in the provinces of Of and Çaykara in Turkey. The main goal of this project was to provide a structured documentation of OP based on the outcomes of: (a) an archive research at the Taylor Bodleian Slavonic & Modern Greek Library of Oxford, the Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects of the Academy of Athens and other specialized libraries in Greece and abroad, and (b) a fieldtrip in the village of Nea Trapezounta (prefecture of Pieria), which is predominantly inhabited by Of Pontians and their descendants.

The end product of this project was a monograph with the basic typological characteristics of OP at all grammatical levels (phonology, morphology and syntax) as these were revealed from the comparative study of the few existing (published and unpublished) grammatical descriptions of the dialect in question as well as the elaborate study of written OP documents such as work logs, sayings, folk stories and narratives, cooking recipes, etc. The results of the archive and document research were further complemented with the findings of the research on the spoken material collected during the fieldwork trip in the village of Nea Trapezounta.

PYTHAGORAS, “A comparative study of Greek-Turkish: Grammatical analysis and acquisition of Turkish as a foreign language”, University of the Aegean, Department of Mediterranean Studies

Duration: March 2004-August 2006
Head Co-ordinator: Spyridoula Varlokosta; Co-ordinator: Anthi Revithiadou
Budget: 50.000€
Funding Agency: Operational Program for Reinforcement of Research Groups at Universities, sponsored by the Second Community Support Framework and co-financed by the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund (75%) and national resources (Greek Ministry of National Education and Religion, 25%)

Aim: The aim of the project was to pursue: (a) the grammatical description of Turkish and its comparative study with Greek, (b) the study of the acquisition of Turkish by Greek learners, (c) the development of a software for learning and teaching Turkish as a foreign language.

Research team: Dr. Spyridoula Varlokosta, Dr. Anthi Revithiadou, Dr. Vassilios Spyropoulos, Dr. Despoina Papadopoulou (postdoc researcher), Sophia Prokou, Hasan Kaili, Dr. Katerina Frantzi, Kalomoira Nikolou

EDUCATION OF THE MUSLIM MINORITY CHILDREN IN THRACE, National and Capodistrian University of Athens
[URL: http://www.ecd.uoa.gr/museduc/]

Duration: 2002-2004
Scientific Director: Prof. Anna Frangoudaki, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Funding Agency: Operational Program for Education and Initial Vocational Training (O.P. “Education”) sponsored by the Third Community Support Framework and co-financed by the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund (75%) and national resources (Ministry of National Education and Religion, 25%)

Action: Grammar and Teaching
Project Leader: Dr. Spyros Moschonas, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies

I was a scientific advisor and researcher on issues pertaining to teaching the phonology of Greek as a second language (L2). My contribution was a scientific report on “The acquisition of suprasegmental phonology by L2 learner of Greek”, which focused primarily on the acquisition of Greek stress, phrasal phonology and intonation by Turkish-speaking students of the minority elementary schools in Thrace.