Spyridoula Varlokosta

List of John Benjamins publications for which Spyridoula Varlokosta plays a role.

The performance of 13 Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) on past tense formation is compared to the performance of two control groups of typically developing (TD) children. It is shown that children with SLI have difficulties in the production of past tense forms… read more
Konstantzou, Katerina, Angeliek van Hout, Spyridoula Varlokosta and Maria Vlassopoulos 2013 Perfective – imperfective: Development of aspectual distinctions in Greek specific language impairment*Three Factors and Beyond: Language development and impairment, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.), pp. 187–216 | Article
Tense morphology has been found to be cross-linguistically vulnerable in specific language impairment (SLI). Research on the development of aspect is rather limited and results are quite inconsistent; some studies suggest that aspect appears intact (Leonard et al. 2003), while others report severe… read more
Varlokosta, Spyridoula 2011 The role of morphology in grammatical gender assignment: A psycholinguistic study in GreekMorphology and its Interfaces, Galani, Alexandra, Glyn Hicks and George Tsoulas (eds.), pp. 321–350 | Article
The aim of this study was to investigate native speakers’ ability to predict gender on the basis solely of morphological information carried by the noun suffix by testing the speakers’ assignment of gender to novel nouns. Results indicated that native speakers use morphology, specifically the… read more
Varlokosta, Spyridoula 2005 Eventivity, modality and temporal reference in early child GreekAdvances in Greek Generative Syntax: In honor of Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou, Stavrou, Melita and Arhonto Terzi (eds.), pp. 217–240 | Article
Varlokosta, Spyridoula 1994 The properties of Pu-complements in modern GreekThemes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993, Philippaki-Warburton, Irene, Katerina Nicolaidis and Maria Sifianou (eds.), pp. 61–68 | Article