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Christodoulou, Christiana; Wexler, Kenneth – Language Learning and Development, 2023
This paper explores the nature of copula omission in Cypriot Greek individuals with Down Syndrome (DS). Previous studies on DS have attributed high rates of copula omission to an overall grammatical/inflectional impairment without offering further analysis. In order to identify relevant conditioning factors, we examined copula productions and…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Greek, Dialects, Foreign Countries
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Leivada, Evelina; Kambanaros, Maria; Taxitari, Loukia; Grohmann, Kleanthes K. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
The present study examines whether bilectal Greek Cypriot educators are able to identify dialectal (Cypriot Greek) elements superimposed on the standard language (Standard Modern Greek) in a written variety-judgment task. By doing so, (meta)linguistic skills of bilectal teachers from Cyprus were put to the test and later compared to the results of…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Greek, Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage