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Date: 11 Nov 2009
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Subject:New Dissertation
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Institution: University of Essex <br>Program: PhD Linguistics <br>Dissertation Status: Completed <br>Degree Date: 2009 <br><br>Author: Chryso Hadjidemetriou<br><br>Dissertation Title: The Consequences of Language Contact: Armenian and Maronite <br>Arabic in contact with Cypriot Greek <br><br>Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics<br><br><br>Dissertation Director(s):<br>Peter Trudgill<br>Enam Al Wer<br><br>Dissertation Abstract:<br><br>The linguistic situation in Cyprus has drawn the attention of many<br>linguists who have mainly focused on the Cypriot Greek variety spoken in<br>the government-controlled area of the Island. It has been reported in the<br>past that little was known about the situation of the Armenian and<br>Arabic-speaking communities of Cyprus (Karyolemou and Goutsos 2004). This<br>study reports the consequences of contact between Armenian and Cypriot<br>Greek (CG) and Kormakiti Maronite Arabic (KMA) and CG.<br><br>The study is based on empirical data collected through interviews and a<br>written test. 41 Armenians and 48 Maronites were recorded; 5 Greek-Cypriot<br>monolinguals were also recorded as a control group; additionally, 45<br>elementary school Armenian pupils participated in a written test, and 21<br>monolingual Cypriot Greek pupils were included as a control group. The<br>analysis included 15 phonological features, and three morphosyntactic<br>features. The phonological results with respect to the contact with KMA<br>show that KMA speakers alternated between [X] and [x] in CG. The use of [X]<br>was found in bilingual KMA and CG speakers. Transfer from KMA is claimed to<br>be the reason of the appearance of this feature.<br><br>The phonological results regarding contact with Armenian show that the<br>Armenian speakers have a tendency to change the manner of articulation of<br>particular sounds in their CG (i.e [d] or [t] for [D], [t] for [T], [g] or<br>[k] for /?/, and /k/ for /x/). Also, it was observed that there is a<br>tendency to adopt more standard features in their CG (i.e. when the choice<br>of selecting between dialectal doublets is present, they chose the more<br>standard variants).<br><br>When examining speech rate and pauses, the results showed the Maronites and<br>the Greek Cypriots produced fewer pauses and faster speech rate results<br>than the Armenian. When examining morphosyntactic features in the CG of the<br>Armenians, the Armenians did not use the definite article in environments<br>where the article is obligatory. Armenian children also produced more<br>definite article deviations than the monolingual Cypriot Greek children.<br>The examination of the assignment of grammatical gender in the Armenians'<br>CG showed that the Armenians produced grammatical gender deviations. It was<br>found that both groups showed a tendency to assign the neuter gender in<br>masculine and feminine nouns. Similar results were noted when Armenian<br>children were tested.<br><br>The analysis of case and number assignment in the CG of the Armenians found<br>deviations in this area to be uncommon in comparison with the definite<br>article and grammatical gender assignment deviations. <br></span>
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