Anastasia Paspali
I am a linguist currently conducting post-doctoral research in the Department of Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. My research is funded from the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the Walter Benjamin Programme awarded to particularly qualified early career post-doctoral researchers.
RESEARCH FOCUS
My research focuses on: language processing, bilingualism and heritage languages (Greek-German second-generation immigrants), first and second language acquisition, language disorders, and second language teaching, narratives and corpora of adult and child bilinguals/learners
My current research project deals with atypically developing populations and language disorders. Project title: "Acquisition and online processing of Voice in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Is non-active morphology a clinical marker?". Research grant from the German Research Foundation .
In terms of teaching, I have taught BA and MA semester courses within the areas of Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics and Language Disorders, Bilingualism, Language Contact, Applied Linguistics, Syntax, and Semantics at the University of Konstanz, Humbodlt University of Berlin, University of Crete, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and New York College-Thessaloniki (in collaboration with the University of Greenwich).
Recent
September, 2024: We are giving a talk at the 12th European Congress of Speech and Language Therapy, 26 - 28 September 2024. Title: "Non-active voice in Greek children with Developmental Language Disorder" (together with Despina Papadopoulou, Theodoros Marinis, Spyridoula Varlokosta, and Artemis Alexiadou).
May, 2024: New paper out! Title: "When morphology is not enough: the acquisition of Voice in monolingual Greek children and bilingual children with Greek as a heritage language". Language Acquisition. DOI:10.1080/10489223.2024.2331236 (with Theodoros Marinis and Artemis Alexiadou).
February, 2024: Instructor of the 3-day workshop "Introduction to R: Data analysis in R for linguists" organised by LingLab, Aristotle University of Thessalonki, 2-4 February 2024.
December, 2023: With Maria Andreou and Theodoros Marinis we are organizing a thematic workshop on "Greek as a heritage language: language development and language learning" as part of the International Conference on Greek Linguistics, ICGL-16 (14-17 December, 2023, Thessaloniki).
July, 2023: With Theodoros Marinis and Artemis Alexiadou, we are giving a talk on "Voice processing in Greek heritage children" at the Heritage Language Syntax 4 Workshop, July 3-4 2023 in Konstanz. https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/hls2023/
June, 2023: New paper out soon (in print)! Title: The Greek and German narrative micro-structure of heritage speakers: A corpus study. Journal of Appied Linguistics, 36.