Nina Topintzi

Work on Onsets

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Stress and Onsets

• (2004) "Moraic onsets and WSP partition in Pirahã." In Proceedings of the University of Cambridge 2nd Postgraduate Conference in Language Research 2004, Evangelia Daskalaki et al. (eds.), pp. 211-218.

• (2005) "On Sonority, Onsets and Stress in Arabela." In Proceedings of the University of Cambridge 3rd Postgraduate Conference in Language Research 2005, Gerasimos Chatzidamianos et al. (eds.), pp. 279-286.

• (2007) "The relationship between voicing and stress with special focus on Karo." Presented at OCP4, Rhodes, Greece, 18-21 January 2007.

• (2014) "Moraic Onsets and Cross-Anchoring in Arrernte."(with Andrew Nevins). Presented at the 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, 29-31 May 2014.

• (2014) "Arrernte moraic onsets: stress and beyond." (with Andrew Nevins). Handout of paper presented at the Workshop on Word Stress and Accent, Leiden, Holland, 15-17 August 2014.

• (2017) "Moraic Onsets in Arrernte". (with Andrew Nevins). Phonology 34(3): 615-650. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675717000306.

 

Word Minimality and Onsets

• (2005) "Onset weight in Arabela and Bella Coola." Handout of paper presented at the 13th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, 26-28 May 2005.

• (2008) "Word Minimality in Bella Coola as evidence for moraic onsets." (final pre-print version). In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting  of the Chicago Linguistics Society 2005 (Main Session), pp. 489-503.

 

Onsets' overview

• (2011) "Onsets." In The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume and Keren Rice (eds). Blackwell Publishing. NB: this is a preprint version of the paper that has minor errors/typos.

 

Work on Geminates (and onsets)

 

• (2006) "Initial geminates initially and medially." Poster presented at the 14th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, 25-27 May 2006.

• (2006) "Geminates and syllabification in Pattani Malay and Marshallese." Handout of paper presented at the 2nd Conference on Austronesian Languages and Linguistics, St Catherine's College, Oxford, UK, 2-3 June 2006.

• (2007) "Onset geminates: implications for weight theory." Paper presented at the 18th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece, 4-6 May 2007.

• (2008) "On the existence of moraic onset geminates." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 26 (1): 147 - 184, DOI: 10.1007/s11049-008-9034-4.

• (2014) "On the Weight of Edge Geminates." (with Stuart Davis). Handout of paper presented at Conference on Weight in Phonetics and Phonology CUNY Phonology Forum, New York, NY, USA, 16-17 January 2014.

• (2014) "Edge Geminates: weight typology and asymmetries." (with Stuart Davis). Poster presented at OCP 11, Leiden, Holland, 22-25 January 2014.

• (2014) "As alive as ever: the geminate debate under Containment." (with Eva Zimmermann). In Anke Assmann, Sebastian Bank, Doreen Georgi, Timo Klein, Philipp Weisser & Eva Zimmermann (eds.), Linguistische Arbeits Berichte 92 (Rule Interaction in Grammar): 65-90, Leipzig University.

• (2017) "On the Weight of Edge Geminates". (with Stuart Davis). In Haruo Kubozono (ed.), Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants, pp. 260- 282. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [this is the final pre-publication version]

• (2019) "Two geminates, one syllable: Schneider’s Law is what happens when you share". (with Katerina Markoulaki). Paper presented at the 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, 23-25 May 2019.

• (2019) "What is after all a geminate?". (with Eva Zimmermann). Paper presented at the 14th International Conference in Greek Linguistics, Patra, 5-8 September 2019.

• (2021) "Some things you just cannot share: on Schneider’s Law, geminates and syllables" (with Katerina Markoulaki). In Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from ISTAL 24.

• (2022) "A new phonological analysis of geminates in Cypriot Greek (and beyond)". Accepted for publication in the Journal of Greek Linguistics. [please email me for the ms. pending minor changes]

 

Work on Greek

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Samothraki Greek

• (2005) "Solving the Samothraki Greek Compensatory Lengthening Puzzle." (final pre-print version). In Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the 17th International Symposium Vol. I (2005) , E. Agathopoulou, M. Dimitrakopoulou and D. Papadopoulou (eds.),  pp. 53-63, Thessaloniki: Monochromia.

• (2005) "Compensatory Lengthening in Samothraki Greek: some problems and theoretical consequences." Handout of paper presented at    the 7th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, York, UK, 8-10 September 2005.

• (2006) "A (not so) paradoxical instance of compensatory lengthening: Samothraki Greek and theoretical implications." Journal of Greek Linguistics 7: 71-119.

• (2008) "An opaque conspiracy in Samothraki Greek" (with Marc van Oostendorp). Workshop on Internal and contact-induced variation in present-day Greek, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 11 April 2008.

• (2009) "Palatalization and Centralization in Samothraki Greek." (with Marc van Oostendorp). In Studies in Greek Linguistics 29: 385-399.

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Prosodic Morphology in Modern Greek

• (2002) "Prosodic Patterns in Greek Truncation and Reduplication: A Correspondence approach." MA dissertation, UCL.

• (2003) "Prosodic patterns and the minimal word in the domain of Greek truncated nicknames." (final pre-print version). In The Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, ISBN:960-88268-0-2.

 

Kozani Greek

• (2010) "Inter-dialectal Insights into Greek Rhythm: The Case of Standard Modern Greek vs. Kozani Greek." (with Katerina Nicolaidis and Eleni Tsiartsioni). In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT4), A. Ralli et al. (eds.), ISSN: 1792-3743, pp. 197-212.

• (2012) "The acoustics of high-vowel loss in a Northern Greek dialect and typological implications." (with Mary Baltazani). Uncorrected proof. In Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity, Phil Hoole et al. (eds.), Interface Explorations series, Mouton de Gruyter.

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Cypriot Greek

• (2022) "A new phonological analysis of geminates in Cypriot Greek (and beyond)". Accepted for publication in the Journal of Greek Linguistics. [please email me for the ms. pending minor changes].

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Glides, palatals and morpho-phonology in Standard and NW Greek

• (2010) "The phonology and phonetics of glides in North-Western Greek dialects."(with Mary Baltazani). In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT4), A. Ralli et al. (eds.), ISSN: 1792-3743, pp. 54-68.

• (2011) "The glide's big fat Greek wedding... to the palatals." (with Mary Baltazani). Presented at OCP8, Marrakech, Morocco, 19-21 January 2011. Poster and accompanying handout

• (2011) "Paradigm structure and Greek glides." Talk presented at the University of Leipzig, Germany, 6 June 2011.

• (2012) "On some phonetic and phonological properties of the Greek glide." (with Mary Baltazani). In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Z. Gavriilidou et al. (eds), Komotini: Democritus University of Thrace, pp. 153-166.

• (2014) "Palatalization across Greek dialects: phonetics, phonology & typology."(with Mary Baltazani, Evia Kainada and Anthi Revithiadou). Presented at the Palatalization Conference, Tromso, 4-5 December 2014.

• (2016) "The third dream: aspects of the morphophonology of the Greek glide and palatals." (with Mary Baltazani). Linguistics Unlimited,   Vol. 1 (2016).

• (2016) "Vocoid-driven processes: Palatalization and glide hardening in Greek and its dialects" (with Mary Baltazani, Evia Kainada and Anthi Revithiadou). Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 1(1), 23. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.108.

 

Acronyms & Binomials

• (2012) "Acronyms and the placement of default stress in Greek." (with Evia Kainada). In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference   on Greek Linguistics, Z. Gavriilidou et al. (eds), Komotini: Democritus University of Thrace, pp. 559-570.

• (2021)"Weight effects in Greek? Insights from binomials" (with Athina Kikiopoulou). Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 30 August-3 September 2021.

• (2021)"Regularities and Oddities in Greek binomials." (with Athina Kikiopoulou). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, Toronto, Canada, 1-3 October 2021.

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Ancient Greek

• (2008) "Weight Polarity in Ancient Greek and other languages." In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics  2007, pp. 503-517.

• (2013) "Compensatory Lengthening". Lemma in the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, Georgios Giannakis, Vit Bubenik, Emilio Crespo, Chris Golston, Alexandra Lianeri, Silvia Luraghi and Stephanos Matthaios (eds.). Leiden: Brill.

• (2013) "Sandhi". Lemma in the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, Georgios Giannakis, Vit Bubenik, Emilio Crespo, Chris Golston, Alexandra Lianeri, Silvia Luraghi and Stephanos Matthaios (eds.). Leiden: Brill.

 

Greek metrics

• (2012) "Stress in Modern Greek Dekapentasyllavo: (a)symmetric patterns and challenges to the theory of poetic meter" (with Stefano Versace). Talk presented at the UD Workshop on Stress & Accent, Univ. of Delaware, 29 November - 1 December 2012, Newark, Delaware, USA.

• (2013) "Modern Greek Dekapentasyllavo Structure and the Principle of Regulated Asymmetry." (with Stefano Versace). Poster presented at m@90: Workshop on Metrical Structure: Stress, Meter and Textsetting, MIT, 20-21 September 2013, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• (2015) "A Linguistic Analysis of the Modern Greek Dekapentasyllavo." (with Stefano Versace). Journal of Greek Linguistics 15: 235-269.

• (2017) "Poetic Rhyme in Greek: insights from a pilot database". (with Konstantinos Avdelidis & Theodora Valkanou). Poster presented at the 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM 25) 25-27 May 2017, Manchester, UK

• (2019) "Quantifying Greek Rhyme" (with Konstantinos Avdelidis & Theodora Valkanou). In Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from 23rd ISTAL, Thessaloniki 31 March - 2 April 2017, pp. 429-447, ISSN 2529-1114.

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Syllabification

• (2020) "On the Syllabification of ON (Obstruent-Nasal) Clusters in Greek". (with Dimitra Gratsouni). Studies in Greek Linguistics 40: 105-113.

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Other Stuff

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Typology textbook

• (2021) Τυπολογία Γλωσσών. Βασικές αρχές, θεωρητικές προσεγγίσεις και φαινόμενα. ISBN 978-960-524-605-1. Ηράκλειο: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης.

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Tone (binarity & ternarity; stress & voicing)

• (2003) "Issues of locality and morphologically induced non-identity in the N.Karanga assertive and non-assertive patterns." UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 15, Ad Neeleman and Reiko Vermeulen (eds.), pp.327-354.

• (2009) "Resolving some paradoxes through binary feature spans." (with Marc van Oostendorp). Presented at OCP6, Edinburgh, UK, 22-24 January 2009.

• (2008) "Beyond tonogenesis: voicing effects on stress." Presented at the Workshop on Phonological Voicing Variation, Amsterdam and Leiden, The Netherlands, 11-12 September 2008.

 

Equal ranking in OT

• (2005) "Putting ‘commas’ at the right place: A note on crucial non-ranking in OT." In Mary Pearce and Nina Topintzi (eds.), UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 17: 83-108.

 

Syllable and Compensatory Lengthening

• (2012) "Compensatory Lengthening." Invited talk at the 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting, in the Special Session Unsolved Problems in Phonology, 23-25 May 2012, Manchester, UK.

• (2013) "Syllable." Synopsis Article. In Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Vol. 4, Phonetics & Phonology,   T.A. Hall and Bernd Pompino-Marschall (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

 

Mapping Asymmetries

• (2010) "Editors' introduction." (with Mary Baltazani & Tasos Tsangalidis). In The Linguistic Review 27(3): 231-239. Special issue: Mapping asymmetries: Phonology, syntax and information structure.

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Iquito and cola

• (2012)" Iquito: a case for cola and Harmonic Serialism." Talk presented at the UD Workshop on Stress & Accent, Univ. of Delaware, 29 November - 1 December 2012, Newark, Delaware, USA.

• (2013) Iquito: the prosodic colon and challenges to OT stress accounts. Paper submitted to the proposed volume Dimensions of Stress, edited by J. Heinz, H. van der Hulst & R. Goedemans, Cambridge: CUP. Email me for a preliminary copy.

• (2015) "The prosodic colon in stress, tone and prosodic templates: evidence from Iquito and elsewhere." Paper presented at the 22nd International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece, 24-26 April 2015.

• (2016) "Iquito: The Prosodic Colon and Challenges to OT Stress Accounts". In Dimensions of Phonological Stress, Jeff Heinz, Harry van der Hulst and Rob Goedemans (eds.), pp. 123-167. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [this is the final pre-publication version].

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Artificial Grammars

• (2018) "Preference for locality is affected by the prefix/suffix asymmetry: Evidence from artificial language learning" (with Jamie White et al.). In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society [NELS 48], Vol. III, pp. 207-220.