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@article{themistocleous-2016-bursts-243451,
	title        = {The bursts of stops can convey dialectal information},
	abstract     = {This study investigates the effects of the dialect of the speaker on the spectral properties of stop bursts. Forty-five female speakers—20 Standard Modern Greek and 25 Cypriot Greek speakers—participated in this study. The spectral properties of stop bursts were calculated from the burst spectra and analyzed using spectral moments. The findings show that besides linguistic information, i.e., the place of articulation and the stress, the speech signals of bursts can encode social information, i.e., the dialects. A classification model using decision trees showed that skewness and standard deviation have a major contribution for the classification of bursts across dialects.},
	journal      = {Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
	author       = {Themistocleous, Charalambos},
	year         = {2016},
	volume       = {140},
	number       = {4},
	pages        = {EL334--EL339},
}

@inProceedings{themistocleous-etal-2016-effects-239893,
	title        = {Effects of stress on fricatives: Evidence from Standard Modern Greek},
	abstract     = {This study investigates the effects of stress on the spectral properties of fricative noise in Standard Modern Greek (SMG). Twenty female speakers of SMG participated in the study. Fricatives were produced in stressed and unstressed positions in two vowel place positions: back and front vowels. Acoustic measurements were taken and the temporal and spectral properties of fricatives using spectral moments were calculated. Stressed fricatives are produced with increased duration, center of gravity, standard deviation, and normalized intensity. The machine learning and classification algorithm C5.0 has been employed to estimate the contribution of the temporal and spectral parameters for the classification of fricatives. Overall, duration and center of gravity contribute the most to the classification of stressed vs. unstressed fricatives.},
	booktitle    = {17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2016  8-12 Sep 2016, San Francisco, USA },
	author       = {Themistocleous, Charalambos and Savva, Angelandria and Aristodemou, Andrie},
	year         = {2016},
	ISBN         = {978-1-5108-3313-5},
}

@article{themistocleous-logotheti-2016-standard-239899,
	title        = {Standard Modern Greek and Cypriot Greek vowels: a sociophonetic study},
	abstract     = {This study is a comparative analysis of Standard Modern Greek (SMG) and Cypriot Greek (CG) vowels. Specifically, the study examines the effects of vowel (/e i a o u/), language variety (SMG vs CG), and stress (stressed vs unstressed vowels) on vowel formants F1 and F2, vowel duration, and fundamental frequency (f0). 45 female speakers were recorded: 20 SMG speakers and 25 CG speakers from Athens and Nicosia respectively. The results showed significant effects of vowel, stress, and language variety on formants, duration and f0. The study confirms the findings of earlier studies on SMG vowels, provides the first report on CG vowels’ acoustic structure, and constitutes the first comparative sociophonetic research on SMG and CG vowels.
},
	journal      = {Proceedings of the international conference on Modern Greek dialects and Linguistic Theory},
	author       = {Themistocleous, Charalambos and Logotheti, Angeliki},
	year         = {2016},
	volume       = {6},
	number       = {1},
	pages        = {178--184},
}

@article{themistocleous-2016-seeking-239901,
	title        = {Seeking an Anchorage. Stability and Variability in Tonal Alignment of Rising Prenuclear Pitch Accents in Cypriot Greek},
	abstract     = {Although tonal alignment constitutes a quintessential property of pitch accents, its exact characteristics remain unclear. This study, by exploring the timing of the Cypriot Greek L*+H prenuclear pitch accent, examines the predictions of three hypotheses about tonal alignment: the invariance hypothesis, the segmental anchoring hypothesis, and the segmental anchorage hypothesis. The study reports on two experiments: the first of which manipulates the syllable patterns of the stressed syllable, and the second of which modifies the distance of the L*+H from the following pitch accent. The findings on the alignment of the low tone (L) are illustrative of the segmental anchoring hypothesis predictions: the L persistently aligns inside the onset consonant, a few milliseconds before the stressed vowel. However, the findings on the alignment of the high tone (H) are both intriguing and unexpected: the alignment of the H depends on the number of unstressed syllables that follow the prenuclear pitch accent. The ‘wandering’ of the H over multiple syllables is extremely rare among languages, and casts doubt on the invariance hypothesis and the segmental anchoring hypothesis, as well as indicating the need for a modified version of the segmental anchorage hypothesis. To address the alignment of the H, we suggest that it aligns within a segmental anchorage–the area that follows the prenuclear pitch accent–in such a way as to protect the paradigmatic contrast between the L*+H prenuclear pitch accent and the L+H* nuclear pitch accent.},
	journal      = {Language and Speech},
	author       = {Themistocleous, Charalambos},
	year         = {2016},
	volume       = {59},
	number       = {4},
	pages        = {433--461},
}