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
March, 2023: New paper in print: 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).
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: A corpus with adult heritage speakers' narratives in both their minority (Greek) and their majority (German) language is currently under annotation! (Paspali & Alexiadou, 2023: Spoken corpus of heritage Greek in Berlin).
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.
May, 2023: With Despina Papadopoulou and Gerakini Douka, we are giving a talk ("Relative clauses in (non-)native speakers of Greek: Evidence from a self-paced reading task") at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics (AMGL43), May 4-7, 2023 in Thessaloniki. https://www.lit.auth.gr/amgl43/
December 15, 2022: I am giving an invited talk at the Seminar series of LingLab (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) about Gender agreement in code-switching: experimental evidence from Greek as a heritage language. Title: H συμφωνία του γένους στην εναλλαγή κωδίκων: πειραματικά δεδομένα από την Ελληνική ως Γλώσσα Πολιτισμικής Κληρονομιάς.
October 2022: The upcoming winter and summer semester I will be teaching the BA courses "Bilingualism, Multilingualism and Language Regression", "Heritage Languages", and "Second Language Acquisition" at the University of Crete, School of Philology, Department of Linguistics.
12-18 October 2022: I will be teaching a block seminar (MA level) on "Research methods in Language Acquisition Research" at the University of Konstanz, Department of Linguistics, MA Multilingualism.
February 2022: The upcoming summer semester I will be teaching the courses "Neurolinguistics" and "Topics in Neurolinguistics" at the University of Crete, School of Philology, Department of Linguistics.
September 2021: The upcoming winter semester I will be teaching the online MA course "Language Contact" at the University of Konstanz (Master in Multilingualism). I will also work on the development, evaluation and optimisation of digital materials and resources in the field of digital teaching.
December 2020, 3: My research proposal "Acquisition and online processing of Voice in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Is non-active morphology a clinical marker?" received a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG, Walter Benjamin Programme awarded to particularly qualified post-doctoral researchers).