Ursula Stephany
General Linguistics
University of Cologne
stephany@uni-koeln.de
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Ursula Stephany General Linguistics University of Cologne stephany@uni-koeln.de website |
| Participants: | 4 |
| Type of Study: | naturalistic |
| Location: | Greece |
| Media type: | audio |
| DOI: | doi:10.21415/T5HW3T |
Stephany, U. (1997). The acquisition of Greek. In Dan I. Slobin (ed.), The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, 4, 183-333. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by the above reference.
Additional references include:
Christofidou, A. & Stephany, S. (2003). Early phases in the development of Greek verb inflection. In Dagmar Bittner, Marianne Kilani-Schoch & Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition. A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 89-129. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Stephany, U. (1985). Aspekt, Tempus und Modalität: Zur Entwicklung der Verbalgrammatik in der neugriechischen Kindersprache. (Language Universals Series, 4). Tübingen: G. Narr.
Stephany, U. (1986). Modality. In Paul Fletcher & Michael Garman (eds.), Language Acquisition II, 375-400. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stephany, U. (1992). Grammaticalization in first language acquisition. Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung, 45, 289-303.
Stephany, U. (1994). Phonologische Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Kindersprache aus synchroner und diachroner Sicht. In K.H. Ramers, H. Vater & H. Wode (eds.), Universale phonologische Strukturen und Prozesse, 205-222. (Linguistische Arbeiten, 310). Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Stephany, U. (2015). Adjectives in early Greek language acquisition. In Tribushinina, E., Voeikova, M. D., Noccetti, S. (eds.), Semantics and Morphology of Early Adjectives in First Language Acquisition, 347-394. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Stephany, U. (2021). Development of modality in early Greek language acquisition. In Stephany, U. & Aksu-Koç, A. (eds.), Development of Modality in First Language Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Studies on Language Acquisition 54), 255-313. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
Stephany, U. & Christofidou, A. (2009). The emergence of nominal inflection in Greek. In Stephany, U. & Voeikova, M. D. (eds.), Development of Nominal Inflection in First Language Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 30, 217-264. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Stephany, U. & Thomadaki, E. (2016). Compounds in Early Greek First Language Acquisition – Including an Onomasiological Approach to Lexical Typology of Greek and German. General Linguistics, Institute for Linguistics, University of Cologne. http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/ 41304
Stephany, U. & Voeikova, M. D. (2015). Requests, their meanings and aspectual forms in early Greek and Russian child language. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 15(1), 66-90.
Thomadaki, E. & Stephany, U. (2007). Diminutives in Greek child language. In Savickiene, I. & Dressler, W. U. (eds.), The Acquisition of Diminutives (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 43), 89-123. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Varlokosta, S., Vainikka, A., & Rohrbacher, B. (1998). Functional projections, markedness, and ‘root infinitives’ in early child Greek. The Linguistic Review, 15(2-3), 187-207.
The Greek child data in this corpus were collected by Ursula Stephany, University of Cologne, Germany. Between 1971 and 1974, about 90 hrs. of dialogues of four monolingual Greek children growing up in Athens, Greece, and their mothers or grandmothers and the investigator were audiotaped in natural speech situations in the children’s homes and or kindergarten.
Observation periods and ages of the four children:
| Child | Period A | Period B | Period C
| Mairi (MAI) | 1;9.18 - 1;10.3 | 2;3.17 - 2;3.24 | 2;9.15 - 2;9.20
| Janna (JAN) | 1;10.25 - 1;11.26 | 2;5.11 – 2;5.20 | 2;11.9 – 2;11.27
| Spiros (SPI) | 1;8.22 – 1;9.11 | - | -
| Maria (MAR) | - | 2;3.7 – 2;3.14 | 2;9.12 – 2;9.17
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After digitization of the data, the files names were reorganized in order to allow for linkage of sound and transcript. The WAV and CHA files (e.g. MAI-A-01.wav, MAI-A-01.cha) are structured as follows:
63 WAV files:
| Child | Period A | Period B | Period C | Total
| Mairi (MAI) | MAI-A-01 to 08 | MAI-B-09 to 15 | MAI-C-16 to 20 | 20 files
| Janna (JAN) | JAN-A-01 to 10 | JAN-B-11 to 17 | JAN-C-18 to 26 | 26 files
| Spiros (SPI) | SPI-A-01 to 04 | - | - | 4 files
| Maria (MAR) | - | MAR-B-01 to 07 | MAR-C-08 to 13 | 13 files
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Transcription of the data in CHAT format is in course of revision according to more recent standards of the CHILDES Project. The revised CHA files will be linked to the corresponding WAV files. The transcription is phonetic/phonemic. Greek letters are being used for the interdental voiced and unvoiced fricatives and the voiced velar fricative (δ, θ, γ). Adult correspondences are indicated on the main line and placed in square brackets. Automatic lexicon-based morphological coding will be possible with the help of a coded Greek lexicon to be provided by Ursula Stephany after having been revised.
The computerized part of the Greek child corpus contained in the CHILDES Database has been investigated in a number of studies (see the list of references above).