Greek ToBI (GRToBI)

Together with Amalia Arvaniti we developed GRToBI, the Greek ToBI. ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) is a system for the annotation of speech corpora, developed initially for English and later adapted by various researchers for many languages. We presented it in ICPhS 1999, LREC2000, and its latest version appears in Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing, Jun, S-A (ed.), published by Oxford University Press, (2005), 84-117.

2016

• Baltazani, M., E. Kainada, A. Revithiadou and N. Topintzi. (under review). 'Vocoid driven processes: Palatalization and glide hardening in Greek and its dialects'. Glossa.
  

2015

• Baltazani, M., E. Kainada, A. Lengeris and K. Nicolaidis. 2015. 'The prenuclear field matters: questions and statements in Standard Modern Greek'. (preprint) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
• Lengeris, A., E. Kainada, M. Baltazani and P. Iverson. 2015. 'Dialectal effects on the perception of Greek vowels'. (preprint) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
• Baltazani, M. and E. Kainada. 2015. 'Drifting without an anchor; how pitch accents withstand vowel loss'. Language and Speech, 58(1), 84-115.

2014

• Arvaniti, A., M. Baltazani and S. Gryllia. 2014. ' The pragmatic interpretation of intonation in Greek wh-questions'. In Campbell, Gibbon, and Hirst (eds.). Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, 1144-­‐1148.
• Nicolaidis, K. and M. Baltazani. 2014. 'An investigation of acoustic and articulatory variability during rhotic production in Greek'. In Kotzoglou, G., K. Nikolou, E. Karantzola, K. Frantzi, I. Galantomos, M. Georgalidou, V. Kourti-Kazoulis, Ch. Papadopoulou & E. Vlachou (eds.), Selected papers, 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Rhodes, Greece, 1192-1207.
• Kainada, E. and M. Baltazani. 2014. 'The vocalic system of the dialect of Ipiros'. In Kotzoglou, G., K. Nikolou, E. Karantzola, K. Frantzi, I. Galantomos, M. Georgalidou, V. Kourti-Kazoulis, Ch. Papadopoulou & E. Vlachou (eds.), Selected papers, 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Rhodes, Greece, 591-602.
• Baltazani, M, E. Kainada, K. Nikolaidis, A. Sfakianaki, A. Lengeris, E. Tsiartsioni, D. Papazachariou, M. Giakoumelou. 2014. ' Cross dialectal vowel spaces in Greek'. 14th Laboratory Phonology Conference, Tokyo (poster presentation).

2013

• Baltazani, M. and N. Topintzi. 2013. 'On some phonetic and phonological properties of the Greek glide'. In Z. Gavriilidou, A. Efthymiou, E. Thomadaki and P. Kambakis-Vougiouklis (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics: 153-166.
• Baltazani, M. and K. Nicolaidis. 2013. 'Production of the Greek rhotic in initial and intervocalic position: an acoustic and electropalatographic study' In Z. Gavriilidou, A. Efthymiou, E. Thomadaki and P. Kambakis-Vougiouklis (eds.),Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics:141-152.
• Kainada E. and M. Baltazani. 2013. 'Evaluating methods for eliciting dialectal speech'. In M. Janse, B. D. Joseph, A. Ralli and M. Bagriacik (eds.), Online Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, Patras, 101-123. [link for the Proceedings]
• Baltazani, M. and K. Nicolaidis. 2013.'The many faces of r'. In Rhotics. New data and perspectives. L. Speafico and A. Vietti (eds.), Bozen: BU Press.
• Topintzi, N. and M. Baltazani. 2013. 'Where the glide meets the palatals'. In Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 20th ISTAL , 177-196. London: Versita de Gruyter.
• Baltazani, M., I. Fudos, E. Kainada, I. Kappa, A. Lengeris, M. Mattheoudakis, G. Mikros, K. Nicolaidis, D. Papazachariou, A. Revythiadou, N. Topintzi, M. Tzakosta. 2013.'Vocalect: A Thalis project for the analysis of dialectal vocalic systems'. Poster presented in the 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Rhodes, Greece.
• Kainada E., and M. Baltazani. 2013.'Segmental anchoring and coping with vowel loss'. In Old World Conference in Phonology 10, Istanbul, 16-19 January 2013.
• Nicolaidis, K. and M. Baltazani. 2013. 'The Greek [r] in rC sequences: an acoustic and electropalatographic study'. In Selected Papers of the 20th International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 157-176. London: Versita de Gruyter.

2012

• Alexopoulou, T. and M. Baltazani. 2012. 'Focus in Greek wh-questions'. In Information Structure: Contrasts and Positions, A. Neeleman and I. Kucerova (eds.), 206-246, CUP.
• Topintzi, N. and M. Baltazani. 2012. 'The acoustics of high-vowel loss in a Northern Greek dialect and typological implications'. In Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity, P. Hoole, L. Bombien, M. Pouplier, Ch. Mooshammer, and B. Kühnert (eds.), Interface Explorations series, de Gruyter, 373-402.

2011

• Topintzi, N. and M. Baltazani. 2011.'The glide's big fat Greek wedding... to the palatals'. In 8th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP8), Marrakech, Morocco, 19-21 January 2011.
• Xydopoulos, G., M. Baltazani, T. Tsangalidis and G. Giannakis (eds.) '12 Κείμενα για τη Γλωσσολογία (12 Papers on Linguistics)'. Selected Papers from the Annual Linguistics Conference at the University of Ioannina, Greece, 2004-2008. Published by Kondyli, Athens, Greece.
• Nicolaidis, K. and M. Baltazani. 2011. 'An electropalatographic and acoustic study of the Greek rhotic in Cr clusters'. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, W.S. Lee & E. Zee (eds.), City University of Hong-Kong, 1474-1478.
• Gryllia, S., A. Arvaniti, M. Baltazani, E. Adamou, M. Terkourafi, N. Vergis, and S. Tsiplakou. 2011. 'Identification and social evaluation of dialectal Greek intonation'. Presentation in the 11th International conference on Greek Linguistics.

2010

• Tsakali, V. and M. Baltazani. 2010.'Acquisition of Quantificational Domain'. In Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2009, J. Costa, A. Castro, M. Lobo and F. Pratas (eds.), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 472-482.
• Baltazani, M., N. Topintzi and T. Tsangalidis (Guest Editors). 2010. Mapping asymmetries: Phonology, Syntax and Information Structure. Special Issue, The Linguistic Review, vol.  27-3.
• Baltazani, M. and N. Topintzi. 2010. 'The phonology and phonetics of glides in North-Western Greek Dialects'. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, A. Ralli, B. Joseph, M. Janse, A. Karasimos (eds.), p. 37-51.
• Christou, T. and M. Baltazani. 2010.'The phonetic realization of stressed vowels in the dialect of Kato Pedina in Ioannina '. In Studies in Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, M. Janse, B. D. Joseph, P. Pavlou, A. Ralli and S. Armosti (eds.), Nicosia: Kykkos Cultural Research Centre, 15–26.

2009

• Baltazani, M. 2009. 'Acoustic characterization of the Greek r in clusters'. In Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the 18th International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, Volume 1, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Salonica.
• Baltazani, M. 2009. 'Cross-dialectal phonetic variability of [r] in Greek'. Poster presented in the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), at the University of Copenhagen, June 2009.

2008

• Baltazani, M. and G. Efthymiou. 2008. 'The realization of /t/ in the dialect of Epirus '. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics , CD-ROM, 30-40. With G. Efthymiou. [Available online]

2007

• 'Baltazani, M. 2007. Intonation of polar questions and the location of nuclear stress in Greek'. Chapter in Tones and Tunes,Volume II: Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody, Carlos Gussenhoven & Tomas Riad (eds.), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, p. 387-405.
• Baltazani, M. 2007.Εισαγωγή στη Φωνητική (Introduction to Phonetics). Translation into Greek and adaptation of the book A Course in Phonetics, by Peter Ladefoged. Published by Patakis, Athens.
• Baltazani, M. 2007.'Prosodic rhythm and the status of vowel reduction in Greek'. In Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the 17th International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, Volume 1, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Salonica, p. 31-43.
• Baltazani, M. 2007.'Prosodic boundaries and syllable duration'. Presented at OCP 4, 2007, Rhodes. [ppt presentation]

2006

• Baltazani, M. 2006.'Characteristics of pre-nuclear pitch accents in statements and yes-no questions in Greek'. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Athens, 28-30 August 2006, 81-84.
• Baltazani, M. 2006.'Effects of stress on intonational structure in Greek'. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany, 2-5 May 2006.
• Baltazani, M. 2006.'Intonation and pragmatic interpretation of negation in Greek'. Journal of Pragmatics, 38, Issue 10, p. 1658-1676, Elsevier.
• Baltazani, M. 2006.'Focusing, prosodic phrasing, and Hiatus resolution in Greek'. In Laboratory Phonology 8, Luis Goldstein, Douglas Whalen, Catherine Best (eds.), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 473-494.
• Baltazani, M. 2006.'On /s/-voicing in Greek'. In Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, York, UK.

2005

• Arvaniti, A. and M. Baltazani. 2005. 'Intonational Analysis and Prosodic Annotation of Greek Spoken Corpora'. Chapter in Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing, Jun, S-A (ed.), Oxford University Press, 84-117.
• Baltazani, M. 2005. 'Phonetic variability of the Greek rhotic sound'. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI) 05. Barcelona, Spain.

2003

• Baltazani, M. 2003. 'Broad Focus across sentence types in Greek'. Proceedings of Eurospeech-2003, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Baltazani, M. 2003.'Pragmatics, intonation and word order in Greek'. Prosodic Interfaces workshop, Nantes, France.
• Baltazani, M. 2003.'Effects of prosodic phrasing on Hiatus across words in Greek'. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Salonica, p. 239-248.

2002

• Baltazani, M. 2002.'The prosodic structure of quantificational sentences in Greek'. Proceedings of the 38th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Andronis, M., E. Debenport, A. Pycha and K. Yoshimura (eds.), 63-78.

2000

• Arvaniti, A. and M. Baltazani. 2000. 'Greek ToBI: A System For The Annotation Of Greek Speech Corpora'. In Proceedings of Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), vol 2: 555-562.

1999

• Baltazani, M. and S.A. Jun. 1999. 'Topic and focus intonation in Greek'. In Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 2: 1305-1308.