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Πειραματικό γυμνάσιο Ρεθύμνου, Πέμπτη 23/10/2025
Outreach presentation: Language, prosody, and communication. Speech acts cross-linguistically and in Greek [In Greek]. Experimental School of Rethymno, Thursday, 23 October 2025

Outreach presentation as part of lab meeting series at University College London, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, Faculty of Brain Sciences, on Tuesday, 30 September 2025.
“Directive Speech Acts in child language: extensions to language variation and intervention”
Sinn und Bedeutung 30 (SuB30) (September 23-27, 2025, Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Greek Directive Subjunctive Questions, High Negation Bias and Modality (Despina Oikonomou)
ICGL17-The 17th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (September 23-26, 2025, University of Cambridge, U.K.)
Grammar in fantasy play in L1-Greek Child Speech (Despina Oikonomou, Vina Tsakali, Maria Gatsou, Katerina Iliopoulou, Benedict Vasiliou, Irini Amanaki, Mary Kaniadaki, Danae Karatzanou)
Ja particle as a flavor-restrictor in Greek directive utterances (Despina Oikonomou) Click here for presentation .pdf
August 2, 2025: Poster presentation in CogSci 2025 Conference, San Francisco, CA https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2025/.
Fantasy Play and the Language of Emplotment in Greek L1 Children (Despina Oikonomou, Vina Tsakali, Maria Gatsou, Benedict Vassileiou, Mary Kaniadaki, Danai Karatzanou, Irini Amanaki). Click here for presentation .pdf
July 31, 2025: Poster presentation in CogSci 2025 Conference, San Francisco, CA https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2025/.
Prosodic Cues in Differentiating Request and Permission Directive Speech Acts (Despina Oikonomou, Vina Tsakali, Maria Gatsou, Katerina Iliopoulou, Benedict Vassileiou)
May 4, 2025: Oral presentation in AMGL45 (https://lit.auth.gr/en/amgl45-en/) at Aristotle University. The development of Mood and Aspect in Greek Directive Speech Acts (Vina Tsakali, Despina Oikonomou, Maria Gatsou, Katerina Iliopoulou, Benedict Vassileiou, Marina Mastrokosta, Mary Kaniadaki, Danae Karatzanou & Irini Amanaki)
January 13, 2025: Poster presentation in LOT Winter School 2025 (13-24/1/2025, Nijmegen https://lotschool.nl/events/lot-winter-school-2025/). Katerina Iliopoulou, Maria Gatsou, Alexandra Samarentsi, & Despina Oikonomou. The many faces of imperative ela ‘come’ in Greek spontaneous (child) speech. Click here for presentation .pdf
October 22-25, 2024: Four-day course with Onur Özsoy, OLIVE-R: Open Linguistic Investigation and Variable Exploration with R, (a hands-on approach to using R for linguistic research).
September 27, 2024: Poster presentation in XPRAG.it 2024 (https://sites.google.com/view/xpragit2024/xprag-it-2024) Despoina Oikonomou, Vasilis Balas, Ilias Triantafyllopoulos, Donka Farkas, Paul Portner, Onur Özsoy, & Vina Tsakali. Mood selection and likelihood: An experimental study in Greek. Click here for presentation .pdf
September 18, 2024: Oral presentation in Sinn und Bedeutung 29 (https://sub29.unime.it/il-convegno/) at C.U.M.O, Noto, Sicily. Despina Oikonomou, Vina Tsakali, Alexandra Samarentsi, Benedict Vassileiou: Temporal interpretation in Directive Speech Acts: A competition between imperative and 2nd-person subjunctive in Greek. Click here for presentation .pdf
