publications
books
Connell, B. A. & A. Arvaniti [editors] (1995) Phonology and Phonetic Evidence: Papers in Laboratory Phonology IV. Cambridge University Press.
Aggouraki, Y., A. Arvaniti, J. I. M. Davy, D. Goutsos, M. Karyolaimou, A. Panayotou, A. Papapavlou, P. Pavlou & A. Roussou [editors] (2001) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press.
theses
Arvaniti, A. (1991) The phonetics of Greek rhythm and its Phonological Implications. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge.
Arvaniti, A. (1987) M.Phil. The Timing of Consonant Clusters: A Study of Initial Consonant Clusters in Modern Greek. M.Phil. dissertation, University of Cambridge.
papers
2012 / in press
Arvaniti, A. (in press a) The usefulness of metrics in the quantification of speech rhythm (prepublication version). Journal of Phonetics.
Arvaniti, A. (in press b) Rhythm classes and speech perception (prepublication version). In O. Niebuhr & H. Pfitizinger (Eds.), Prosodies: Context, Function and Communication. Walter de Gruyter.
Amalia Arvaniti (2012) Chapter 11.2 Segment-to-Tone Association. In A. Cohn, C. Fougeron & M. Huffman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology, pp. 265-274. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
2011
Arvaniti, A. & E. Adamou (2011) Focus expression in Romani. 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Listen to the examples in the paper.
Amalia Arvaniti (2011). The representation of intonation. In Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Elizabeth Hume and Keren Rice (Eds.), Companion to Phonology, Wiley-Blackwell.
2010
Arvaniti, A. (2010) Linguistic practices in Cyprus and the emergence of Cypriot Standard Greek. Mediterranean Language Review 17: 15-45.
Arvaniti, A. & T. Ross (2010) Rhythm classes and speech perception. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, 11-14 May 2010. Listen to the examples in the paper.
Adamou, E. & A. Arvaniti (2010) Language-specific and universal patterns of narrow focus marking in Romani. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, 11-14 May 2010. Listen to the examples in the paper.
Arvaniti, A. (2010) A (brief) overview of the phonetics and phonology of Cypriot Greek. In The Greek language in Cyprus from antiquity to today, pp. 107-124. Athens: University of Athens.
2009
Arvaniti, A. (2009) Rhythm, timing and the timing of rhythm. Phonetica 66: 46-63.
Arvaniti, A., D. R. Ladd (2009) Greek wh-questions and the phonology of intonation. Phonology 26: 43-74.
Arvaniti, A. (2009) Greek intonation and the phonology of prosody: polar questions revisited. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, pp. 14-29. (available also at the conference site)
2008
Ferjan, N., T. Ross & A. Arvaniti (2008) Second language rhythm and rhythm metrics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123: 3427.
Ross, T., N. Ferjan & A. Arvaniti (2008) Quantifying rhythm in running speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123: 3427.
Arvaniti, A., T. Ross & N. Ferjan (2008). On the reliability of rhythm metrics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124: 2495.
2007
Arvaniti, A. (2007a) On the relationship between phonology and phonetics (or why phonetics is not phonology). Special Session: Between Meaning and Speech: On the Role of Communicative Functions, Representations and Articulations, Proceedings of ICPhS XVI, pp. 19-24.
Arvaniti, A. (2007b) On the presence of final lowering in British and American English. In C. Gussenhoven & T. Riad (eds.) Tone and Tunes, vol. 2: Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody, pp. 317-347. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Arvaniti, A. (2007c) Greek Phonetics: The State of the Art. Journal of Greek Linguistics 8: 97-208.
Arvaniti, A. & G. Garding (2007). Dialectal variation in the rising accents of American English (prepublication version). In J. Cole & J. H. Hualde (eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology 9, pp. 547-576. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
del Giudice, Alex, Ryan K. Shosted, Katherine Davidson, Mohammad Salihie & Amalia Arvaniti (2007). Comparing methods for locating pitch "elbows." Proceedings of ICPhS XVI, pp. 117-1120.
Kilpatrick, Cynthia, Ryan K. Shosted & Amalia Arvaniti (2007) On the perception of incomplete neutralization. Proceedings of ICPhS XVI, pp. 653-656.
2006
Arvaniti, A. (2006a) Erasure as a means of maintaining diglossia in Cyprus. San Diego Linguistic Papers 2.
Arvaniti, A. (2006b) Linguistic practices in Cyprus and the emergence of Cypriot Standard Greek. San Diego Linguistic Papers 2.
Arvaniti, A., D. R. Ladd & I. Mennen (2006a) Phonetic effects of focus and "tonal crowding" in intonation: Evidence from Greek polar questions. Speech Communication 48: 667-696.
Arvaniti, A., D. R. Ladd & I. Mennen (2006b) Tonal association and tonal alignment: evidence from Greek polar questions and contrastive statements. Language and Speech 49: 421-450.
Arvaniti, A., R. Shosted, C. Kilpatrick (2006) On the perception of epenthetic stops in American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120: 3249.
Shosted, R., A. Del Giudice, A. Arvaniti (2006) Comparing methods for measuring pitch "elbows". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120: 3091.
2005
Arvaniti, A. & M. Baltazani. Intonational analysis and prosodic annotation of Greek spoken corpora (2005). In Sun-Ah Jun [ed], Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing. Oxford University Press. 84-117.
Arvaniti, A. (2005) Pronunciation and intonation [in Greek]. In S. Efstathiadis (ed.), Breakthrough Level for Modern Greek. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
2004
Arvaniti, A. and B. D. Joseph (2004). Early Modern Greek /b d g/: Evidence from Rembetika and Folk Songs (prepublication version). Journal of Modern Greek Studies 22: 73-94.
Arvaniti, A. (2004) Final lowering: fact, artefact or dialectal variation? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 116: 2644.
2003
Arvaniti, A. (2003). Peak scaling in Greek and the role of declination. Proceedings of XVth ICPhS, pp. 2269-2272. Barcelona, 4-9 August 2003.
Arvaniti, A. & S. Godjevac (2003) The origins and scope of final lowering in English and Greek. Proceedings of XVth ICPhS, pp.1077-1080. Barcelona, 4-9 August 2003.
Arvaniti, A. (2003) Pronunciation and intonation [in Greek]. In S. Efstathiadis (ed.), Vantage Level for Modern Greek, pp. 193-204. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
2002
Arvaniti, A. (2002). The intonation of yes-no questions in Greek. In M. Makri-Tsilipakou (ed.), Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, pp. 71-83. Thessaloniki: Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University. See Arvaniti, Ladd & Mennen (2006a)
Arvaniti, A. (2002) Dimorphy, diglossia and the emergence of Cypriot Standard Greek [in Greek]. Recherches en linguistique grecque, vol. I: 75-78. Paris: L' Harmattan. See Arvaniti (2010)
Arvaniti, A. & B. D. Joseph (2002) Modern Greek [b d g] in the early 20c.: Evidence from folk and rebetica songs. Recherches en linguistique grecque, vol. I: 67-70. Paris: L' Harmattan. (For a more detailed paper on the same topic, see Arvaniti & Joseph 2004.)
Arvaniti, A. & T. Pelekanou (2002) Postlexical rules and gestural overlap in a Greek spoken corpus. Recherches en linguistique grecque, vol. I: 71-74. Paris: L' Harmattan.
Arvaniti, A. & L. Taylor (2002) On the origins and scope of final lowering. 144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, December 2-6, 2002. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 112: 2443.
2001
Arvaniti, A. (2001) Comparing the phonetics of single and geminate consonants in Cypriot and Standard Greek. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Greek Linguistics, pp. 37-44. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press.
Arvaniti, A. (2001). The intonation of wh-questions in Greek. Studies in Greek Linguistics 21:57-68. Thessaloniki. See Arvaniti & Ladd (2009)
Arvaniti, A. (2001) Cypriot Greek and the phonetics and phonology of geminates. Proceedings of International Conference for Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. Patras, 12-14 October 2000.
Tserdanelis, G. & A. Arvaniti (2001). The acoustic characteristics of geminate consonants in Cypriot Greek. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Greek Linguistics, pp.29-36. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press.
Arvaniti, A. (2001) Pronunciation and intonation [in Greek]. In S. Efstathiadis (ed.), Waystage Level for Modern Greek, pp. 99-106. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
Arvaniti, A. (2001) Pronunciation and intonation [in Greek]. In S. Efstathiadis (ed.), Intermediate Level for Modern Greek, pp. 181-190. Thessaloniki: Center for Greek Language.
2000
Arvaniti, A. (2000) The acoustics of stress in Modern Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics 1: 9-39.
Arvaniti, A. & B. D. Joseph (2000) Variation in voiced stop prenasalisation in Greek. Glossologia 11-12: 131-166. [Or see it in The Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics 52 (1999): 203-232.]
Arvaniti, A., D. R. Ladd & I. Mennen (2000) What is a starred tone? Evidence from Greek. In M. Broe & J. Pierrehumbert [editors], Papers in Laboratory Phonology V: Acquisition and the Lexicon. Cambridge University Press, 119-131.
Grice, M., D. R. Ladd & A. Arvaniti (2000). On the place of "phrase accents" in intonational phonology. Phonology 17:143-185.
Arvaniti, A. & M. Baltazani (2000). GREEK ToBI: a system for the annotation of Greek speech corpora. Proceedings Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000), vol. II, pp. 555-562. Athens: European Language Resources Association.
Arvaniti, A. & G. Tserdanelis (2000). On the phonetics of geminates: evidence from Cypriot Greek. Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP2000), Beijing 23-27 October 2000.
Christogiannis, C., T. Varvarigou, A. Zappa, Y. Vamvakoulas, C. Shih & A. Arvaniti (2000) Construction of the acoustic inventory for a Greek Text-to-Speech concatenative synthesis system. Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2000), Istanbul, June 5-9, 2000. [CD-ROM publication]
Christogiannis, C., Y. Stavroulas, Y. Vamvakoulas, T. Varvarigou, A. Zappa, C. Shih & A. Arvaniti (2000) Design and implementation of a Greek text-to-speech system based on concatenative synthesis. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP2000), Beijing 23-27 October 2000.
1999
Arvaniti, A. (1999a) Illustrations of the IPA: Modern Greek. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 19: 167-172.
Arvaniti, A. (1999b) Illustrations of the IPA: Cypriot Greek. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 19: 173-176.
Arvaniti, A. (1999c) Effects of speaking rate on the timing of single and geminate sonorants. Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 599-602, San Francisco, CA.
Arvaniti, A. (1999d) Greek voiced stops: prosody, syllabification, underlying representations or selection of the optimal? Proceedings of the 3rd International Linguistics Conference for the Greek Language, 383-390. Athens: Ellinika Grammata.
Arvaniti, A. (1999e) Pronunciation and Intonation [in Greek]. In S. Efstathiadis (ed.), Threshold for Modern Greek, vol. A, pp. 159-167. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
1998
Arvaniti, A., D. R. Ladd & I. Mennen (1998) Stability of tonal alignment: the case of Greek prenuclear accents. Journal of Phonetics 26: 3-25.
Arvaniti, A. (1998) Phrase accents revisited: comparative evidence from Standard and Cypriot Greek. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 7: 2883-2886, Sydney.
Arvaniti, A. (1998) Evidence for prosodic structure in recent blends in Greek. [in Greek] Studies in Greek Linguistics 18: 68-82. Thessaloniki, Greece.
1997
Arvaniti, A. (1997) Greek "emphatic stress": a first approach. In Greek Linguistics 95: Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Greek Linguistics, vol. I: 13-24. The Department of Linguistics, University of Salzburg.
1995
Arvaniti, A. & D. R. Ladd (1995) Tonal alignment and the representation of accentual targets. In Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Stockholm, vol. 4: 220-223.
Arvaniti, A. (1995) Sociolinguistic patterns of prenasalisation in Greek. In Studies in Greek Linguistics 15: 209-220. Thessaloniki, Greece. (See Arvaniti & Joseph, 2000).
1994
Arvaniti, A. (1994) Acoustic features of Greek rhythmic structure. Journal of Phonetics 22: 239-268.
1992
Arvaniti, A. (1992) Secondary stress: evidence from Modern Greek. In G. J. Docherty & D. R. Ladd [editors], Papers in Laboratory Phonology II: Gesture, Segment, Prosody. Cambridge University Press, 398-423.
Arvaniti, A. (1992) On stress clashes in Modern Greek. Progress Reports from Oxford Phonetics 5: 1-10. Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory. (See Arvaniti 1994.)
1991
Arvaniti, A. (1991b) Rhythmic categories: a critical evaluation on the basis of Greek data. In Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2: 298- 301. Université de Provence, Service des Publications. (See Arvaniti 1994, Arvaniti 1991 and Arvaniti 2009.)
1990
Arvaniti, A. (1990) Review of Botinis, A. (1989) Stress and prosodic structure in Greek, Lund University Press. Journal of Phonetics 18: 65-69.
1989
Arvaniti, A. (1989) On a new conception of the metrical structure of Greek. In Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on the Description and/or Comparison of English and Greek: 159-182. Thessaloniki, Greece.
