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Address
Katerina Nicolaidis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
School of English
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
54124, Thessaloniki, Greece
0310 997429
0310 997432
knicol@enl.auth.gr
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Course currently taught
BA in English Language and Literature
Subjects taught and years
Ling 2-330: Phonetics
Ling 2-335: Phonology
Ling 2-474: Phonological Development
Ling 3-229: Teaching the Pronunciation of English
Ling 2-120: Introduction to Linguistics I
Ling 2-121: Introduction to Linguistics II
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Academic Qualifications
1988
BA in English Language and Literature
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
School of English, Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics.
1989
MA in Theoretical Linguistics
University of Reading, UK. Department of Linguistic
Sciences.
1997
PhD (Phonetics)
University of Reading, UK. Department of Linguistic
Sciences.
Employment
Current Post:
Associate Professor in Phonetics & Phonology
School of English, Dept of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2000 - 2002
Lecturer
School of English, Dept of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2000 - 2002
Academic Advisor
Metropolitan College
Department of Logopaedics, Athens
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1998 - 2000
Teaching Fellow
School of English, Dept of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1994 - 1995
Research Assistant
Department of Speech and Language Sciences
Queen Margaret College
Edinburgh, UK
1992 - 1993
Teaching Fellow
Department of Linguistic Sciences
University of Reading, UK
1989 - 1992
Research Officer
Department of Linguistic Sciences
University of Reading, UK
1987 - 1988
Teacher of English
"Svarna" School of English, Thessaloniki
1985 - 1987
Teacher of English
"Kosmos" School of Languages, Thessaloniki
Honorary Posts
1996 - to date
Honorary Lecturer/Research Fellow
Department of Speech and Language Sciences
Queen Margaret University College
Edinburgh, UK
Membership in Professional Societies
BAAP:
IPA:
IATEFL:
TESOL:
GALA:
British Association of Academic Phoneticians
International Phonetics Association
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Greek Applied Linguistics Association
Research Projects
1989 - 1992 ACCOR: Articulatory-acoustic correlations of coarticulatory processes.
Research officer in EEC funded ESPRIT (Basic Research Action) project.
Languages investigated: Catalan, English, French, German, Italian, Irish
Gaelic and Swedish
1993 - 1996 SPHERE: Speech and Hearing Representations. Research Assistant in EEC
funded HMC (Human Capital and Mobility) project.
1998 - 2000 AVHI: Articulatory Variability in Hearing Impairement. Co-director of ANEP
Project funded by the Research Committee of Aristotle University. Language
investigated: Greek.
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2000 - 2002 PEPIKA: Teacher Training Seminars. Co-director of self-funded project of
the Research Committee of Aristotle University.
Conferences Organised
16-18 September 1993.
First International Conference on Greek Linguistics.
Department of Linguistic Sciences, University of Reading, UK.
In collaboration with Irene Philippaki-Warburton.
22-24 April 1999.
13th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied
Linguistics. School of English, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece (Chair of Organising Committee).
9-12 December 1999.
12th International Symposium of the Greek Association of
Applied Linguistics. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
(Member of Organising Committee).
30 September 2000.
1st Conference for the Hearing Impaired. Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki. In collaboration with R. Pita.
Seminars Organised
2000-to date
Teacher Training Seminars.
Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki. Four 50-hour seminars annually. In collabotarion
with M. Mattheoudakis.
Research Publications in English
Books / Proceedings edited
Nicolaidis, K. & Mattheoudakis, M. (eds) (2000) Proceedings of the 13th International
Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 22-24 April, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
Philippaki-Warburton, I., Nicolaidis, K. & Sifianou, M. (eds) (1994) Themes in Greek
Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Major publications
Nicolaidis, K. (2001) An electropalatographic study of Greek spontaneous speech. Journal
of the International Phonetic Association, 31/1, 67-85.
Gibbon, F. and Nicolaidis K. (1999) "Palatography". In W.J. Hardcastle and N. Hewlett
(eds) Coarticulation. CUP, pp. 229-245.
Nicolaidis, K., Hardcastle, W.J., Marchal, A. and N. Nguyen (1993) "Comparing phonetic,
articulatory, acoustic and aerodynamic signal representations". In M. Cooke, S. Beet and
M. Crawford (eds) Visual Representations of Speech Signals, John Wiley and Sons, pp.
55-82.
Gibbon F., Hardcastle, W.J. and Nicolaidis, K. (1993) "Temporal and spatial aspects of
lingual coarticulation in /kl/ sequences: a cross-linguistic investigation" Language and
Speech, 36, 2/3, 261-278.
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Hardcastle, W.J., Gibbon, F. and Nicolaidis, K. (1991) "EPG data reduction techniques
and their implications for studies of lingual coarticulation", Journal of Phonetics, 19, 3/4,
251-266.
Conference Proceedings
Nicolaidis, K. (2002) Durational variability in Vowel-Consonant-Vowel sequences in Greek:
the influence of phonetic identity, context and speaker. Proceedings of the 14th
International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 20-22 April, 2000,
Thessaloniki, Greece. 280-294.
Nicolaidis, K. (2002) Consonant lingual-palatal patterns produced by hearing-impaired
speakers: two case studies. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Greek
Linguistics, 13-16 September 2001, Paris, France.
Nicolaidis, K. (2000) ‘Consonant production in spontaneous speech: an
electropalatographic study’. Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 22-24 April, Thessaloniki, Greece. 228-240.
Nicolaidis, K. (1999) ‘The influence of stress on V-to-V coarticulation: an
electropalatographic study’. Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences, 1-7 August, San Fransisco, California, USA. pp. 1087-1090.
Nicolaidis, K. (1999) ‘An electropalatographic study of Vowel-to-Consonant and
Consonant-to-Vowel coarticulation’. Greek Linguistics '97 Proceedings of the 3rd
International Conference on the Greek Language, Athens, Greece. pp. 400-408.
Nicolaidis, K. (1998) ‘Durational Variability in Vowel-Consonant-Vowel sequences in
Greek: the influence of stress and utterance type’. Proceedings of the 12th International
Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 2-4 April, Thessaloniki, Greece. pp.
331-340.
Nicolaidis, K. (1997) 'Speaker-induced articulatory variability: an electropalatographic
study'. Proceedingς of the 11th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied
Linguistics, 10-12 April 1997, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp.154-165.
Nicolaidis, K. (1997) 'An electropalatographic study of Vowel-to-Consonant coarticulation
in Greek'. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied
Linguistics, 24-26 April 1996, Thessaloniki, Greece, 105-115.
Nicolaidis, K (1997) ‘Variability in Vowel-Consonant-Vowel sequences in Greek: isolated
words vs. connected speech’. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Greek
Linguistics, 22-24 September 1995, Salzburg, Austria, vol 1, 45-54.
Waters, D., Nicolaidis, K., Hardcastle, W.J. & Gibbon, F. (1995) ‘Variability of lingual stops
in English: an electropalatographic study’. Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress
of Phonetic Sciences, 13-19 August, Stockholm, Sweden, vol, 3, 456-458.
Nicolaidis, K. (1994) 'Aspects of lingual articulation in Greek: an electropalatographic
study'. In I. Philippaki-Warburton, K. Nicolaidis and M. Sifianou (eds) Themes in Greek
Linguistics, 225-232, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Nicolaidis, K. (1994) ‘Vowel-to-Vowel coarticulatory effects in Greek’. Proceedings of the
8th Symposium on English and Greek: description and/or comparison of the two
languages, 28-30 March 1994, Thessaloniki, Greece, 239-254.
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Nicolaidis, K. (1993) 'Coarticulatory effects in VtV sequences in Greek'. Proceedings of the
7th Symposium on English and Greek: description and/or comparison of the two
languages, 7-9 April, 1993, Thessaloniki, Greece, 153-163.
Marchal, M, Hardcastle, W.J., Nicolaidis, K. Nguyen, N and Gibbon, F. (1992) 'Non-linear
annotation of multi-channel speech data'. Proceedings of the International Conference on
Spoken language Processing, October 12-16, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 787-790.
Hardcastle, W.J., Marchal, M., Nicolaidis, K. Nguyen, N (1992) 'Non-linear annotation of
multi-channel speech data'. Proceedings of the 4th Australian International Conference on
Speech Science and Technology, Brisbane, December 1992, pp. 542-547.
Nicolaidis, K., Hardcastle, W.J., Marchal, A. and N. Nguyen (1992) 'Comparing phonetic,
articulatory, acoustic and aerodynamic signal representations'. ESCA Tutorial, Comparing
speech signal representations Sheffield, 7th April, 1992, pp.61-98.
Nicolaidis, K. (1991) 'Coarticulatory Strategies in Greek and English VCV sequences'.
Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on the description and/or comparison of English and
Greek, Thessaloniki, Greece, 113-140.
Other publications
Nicolaidis, Κ. & W.J. Hardcastle (1994) ‘Articulatory-acoustic analysis of selected English
Sentences from the EUR-ACCOR corpus’. SPHERE HCM internal publication.1-56.
Nicolaidis, K., Hardcastle, W.J. and Gibbon, F. (1993) 'Bibliography of
Electropalatographic studies in English (1957-1992) - Parts I, II, and III'. Speech Research
Laboratory, University of Reading, Work in Progress 7, pp. 26-47.
Hardcastle, W.J., Gibbon, F., Nicolaidis, K. (1991) 'EPG study of lingual coarticulation in
four European languages'. ACCOR Periodic Progress Report II, 16.
Shockey, L. and Nicolaidis, K. (1991) 'Connected Speech processes in English'. ACCOR,
Periodic Progress Report II, 15.
Hardcastle, W.J., Gibbon, F . and Nicolaidis, K. (1991) 'Speech material and recent
development in experimental procedure for multichannel recordings'. ACCOR, Periodic
Progress Report II, 14.
Hardcastle, W.J., Gibbon, F. and Nicolaidis, K. (1991) 'Multichannel data acquisition and
analysis system'. ACCOR, Periodic Progress Report II, 13.
Νicolaidis, K. (1990) 'Vowel Reduction: evidence from Greek'. Speech Research
Laboratory, University of Reading, Work in Progress 6, 77-121.
Theses
Nicolaidis, K. (1997) Sources of articulatory variability in Greek: an electropalatographic
study. PhD Thesis. University of Reading.
Nicolaidis, K. (1989) Vowel reduction: a crosslinguistic study including English and Greek.
MA Dissertation. University of Reading.
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Research Publications in Greek
Proceedings edited
Nicolaidou, K. & Pita R. (eds) (2001) Praktika tis 1is Imeridas gia ti Barikoia kai tin kofosi:
Epikoinonia, Technologia, Ekpaidefsi (Proceedings of the 1st Colloquium on the Hearing
Impaired: Communication, Technology, Education). September 2000, Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki.
Publications in Journals and Conference Proceedings
Nicolaidou, K. (2002) I techniki tou electropalatografou kai I chrisi tis sti logotherapeftiki
paremvasi (The technique of electropalatography and its use in speech therapy).
Epikoinonia, Journal of the Association of the Panhellenic Association of Logopaedists.
Nicolaidou, K. (2001) I efarmogi tis technikis tou electropalatografou logotherapeftiki
paremvasi tou kofou/barikoou atomou (The use of the technique of electropalatography in
speech therapy intervension for the hearing impaired). Proceedings of the 1st Colloquium
on the Hearing Impaired: Communication, Technology, Education. September 2000,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 41-55.
Mattheoudakis, M. & Nicolaidou, K. (2002) Kainotomia kai Tritovathmia Ekpaidefsi: I
simvoli tou tmimatos Agglikis (Innovation and Tertiary Education: the contribution of the
Department of English). Proceedings of the Panhellenic Conference on Tertiary and
Secondary Education. 30 March-1 April 2001, School of Philosophy, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki.
Papers Presented at Conferences
'Coarticulatory Strategies in Greek and English VCV sequences'
March 27-29, 1991. 5th Symposium on the description and/or comparison of English and
Greek. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
'Temporal and spatial aspects of lingual coarticulation in /kl/ sequences: a cross-linguistic
investigation' with Gibbon, F. & Hardcastle, B.
23-25 October, 1991. ACCOR Symposium on Coarticulation. Venice, Italy.
'VCV Coarticulation in English and French: an EPG and acoustic study.'
March 30 - April 2, 1992. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium,
Cambridge, UK.
'The influence of stress on coarticulation'
6 June 1992. Colloquium on Modern Greek Linguistics, Birmingham, UK.
'Non-linear annotation of multi-channel speech data.'
12-16 October, 1992. 2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,
Banff, Alberta, Canada.
'Coarticulatory effects in VtV sequences in Greek'
7-9 April, 1993, 7th Symposium on English and Greek: description and/or comparison of
the two languages, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
‘An electropalatographic study of Vowel-t-Vowel sequences in isolated words and
connected speech in Greek’
16-18 September, 1993, 1st International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, UK.
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‘Vowel-to-Vowel coarticulatory effects in Greek’
28-30 March 1994, 8th Symposium on English and Greek: description and/or comparison
of the two languages, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
‘Comparing lingual articulation in isolated words and connected speech’
11-13 July 1994, Laryngograph/ Electropalatography Symposium, Edinburgh, UK.
‘Variability of lingual stops in English: an electropalatographic study’
13-19 August 1995, ΧΙΙth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm,
Sweden.
‘Variability in VCV sequences in Greek: isolated words versus connected speech’
22-24 September 1995, 2nd International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Salzburg,
Austria.
‘An electropalatographic study of Vowel-to-Consonant coarticulation in Greek’
24-26 Αpril 1996, 10th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
‘Speaker-induced articulatory variability: an electropalatographic study’
10-12 April 1997, 11th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
‘An electropalatographic study of Vowel-to-Consonant and Consonant-to-Vowel
coarticulation’
25-27 September 1997, 3rd International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Athens,
Greece.
‘Durational Variability in Vowel-Consonant-Vowel sequences in Greek: the influence of
stress and utterance type’
2-4 April, 1998. 12th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
'Consonant production in spontaneous speech: an electropalatographic study’
22-24 April 1999. 13th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
‘The influence of stress on V-to-V coarticulation: an electropalatographic study’
1-7 August 1999. XIV International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Fransisco,
California, USA.
‘Consonant production in Greek spontaneous speech: an electropalatographic study’
8-11 October 2000. Conference on patterns of speech sounds in unscripted
communication: production - perception - phonology. Sankelmark Academy, Germany.
'Durational variability in Vowel-Consonant-Vowel sequences in Greek: the influence of
phonetic identity, context and speaker'
20-22 April 2000. 14th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
‘I efarmogi tis technikis tou electropalatografou logotherapeftiki paremvasi tou
kofou/barikoou atomou’ (The use of the technique of electropalatography in speech
therapy intervension for the hearing impaired).
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30 September 2000. 1st Colloqium on the Hearing Impaired: Communication, Technology,
Education. September 2000, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
‘Kainotomia kai Tritovathmia Ekpaidefsi: I simvoli tou tmimatos Agglikis’ (Innovation and
Tertiary Education: the contribution of the Department of English).
30 March-1 April 2001. Panhellecic Conference on Tertiary and Secondary Education.
School of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
22. 'Utopia vs Reality: the efficacy of in-service training courses for EFL teachers'
4-6 May 2001. 15th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
‘I chrisi tis technikis tou ilektropalatografou sti meleti tis glossikis arthroisis sti barikoiakofosi’ (The use of the technique of electropalatography in the study of the articulation of
the hearing impaired).
24-27 May 2001, 8th Panhellenic Conference on Research in Psychology. Alexandroupoli,
Greece.
'Consonant lingual-palatal contact patterns produced by hearing impaired speakers:
two case studies'.
13-15 September 2001, 5th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Sorbonne,
Paris, France.
'Innovative in-service teacher development'.
with Μ. Mattheoudakis
13-14 October 2001, TESOL 9th Annual Convention, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece.
'Teaching Vocabulary and Pronunciation in combination: a challenging approach'
with Μ. Mattheoudakis
March 2002, IATEFL, York, UK.
‘The role of the University in the promotion of teacher development’
with Μ. Mattheoudakis
21 April, 2002. Colloquium on Challenges in teacher Education. Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece.
‘Idiaiterotites kai prooptikes tis logotherapias stin Ellada’ (Speech Therapy in Greece:
challenges and prospects)
(invited talk) 24 May 2002. Colloquium on Logopaedics. Metropolitan College, Athens.
Papers Presented at Workshops
23 March 1990. First Laryngograph Users Workshop, UCL, London, UK.
(invited tutorial) ‘The use of the Laryngograph in the multi-sensor workstation in Reading.’
12-13 April, 1991. Workshop on Instrumental assessment and treatment of disordered
speech, Speech Research laboratory, University of Reading, UK.
(invited tutorial) ‘Multi-channel speech analysis: normal and pathological data’
8-9 April, 1992. European Speech Communication Association Workshop on "Comparing
Speech Signal Representations", Sheffield, UK.
(invited tutorial) ‘Comparing phonetic, articulatory, acoustic and aerodynamic signal
representations’
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20-22 December, 1993. 2nd ACCOR workshop on “Lingual data and modelling in speech
production”, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
‘Aspects of lingual coarticulation in Greek’
20 May, 1994, Reading Phonetics Roundtable on “Real vs. Ideal: Do we still need citation
forms?”, Reading University, UK.
‘Comparing lingual articulation in isolated words and connected speech’
Papers Presented at European project meetings
19-20 May 1990. First Annual Review, ACCOR project, Reading, UK.
‘The ACCOR Bibliographical and EPG databases’
1 February 1991. ACCOR Database Meeting, Valencia, Spain.
‘The EUR-ACCOR multi-sensor database’
29-30 April 1991 Second Annual Review, ACCOR Project, Munich, Germany.
‘Lingual Coarticulation: EPG study of lingual Coarticulation in four European languages.’
17-19 February, 1994. First SPHERE Workshop, LIMSI, Paris, France.
‘The EUR-ACCOR database and the non-linear analysis methodology’
16-18 February, 1995. Second SPHERE Workshop. Barcelona, Spain.
‘Articulatory-acoustic analysis of selected sentences from the EUR-ACCOR corpus’
8-10 February, 1996. Third SPHERE Workshop. Athens, Greece.
‘Variability of lingual stops in English: an electropalatographic study’
Other International Conferences attended
17-29 July, 1989. NATO ASI Conference on "Speech Production and Modelling"
9-12 April, 1990. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium, Lancaster,
UK.
20-22 February 1991. European Speech Communication Association Workshop on
"Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles", Barcelona, Catalonia Spain.
19-24 August, 1991. XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-en-Provence,
France.
23-25 October 1991. ACCOR Symposium on Coarticulation. Venice, Italy.
2-4 April, 1992. Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of Reading, UK.
19-21 April, 1993. ACCOR Workshop on Electromagnetic Articulography in Phonetic
Research.
25-26 May, 1995. ACCOR Workshop on articulatory databases.
20 April, 1996. 1st Scientific Workshop on Hearing Impairment in Children: A medicalPedagogical-Social Approach. Thessaloniki, Greece.
22-24 April, 1996. 17th Annual Meeting, Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University,
Thessaloniki, Greece.
23-25 June 1997. The 2nd European Symposium on ELG/EPG. Quuen Margaret College,
Edinburgh, UK.
21-22 March 1998. 7th Conference of the Panhellenic Association of Logopedists, Aristotle
University,Thessaloniki, Greece.
May 2001. 22nd Annual Meeting, Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University,
Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Forthcoming publications
Nicolaidis, K. An electropalatographic study of Greek palatal consonants (in preparation).
Nicolaidis, K. Acoustic variability of vowels in Greek spontaneous speech (in preparation).
Nicolaidis, K. & Mattheoudakis, M. Teaching vocabulary and pronunciation in combination:
a challenging approach. IATEFL Proceedings (forthcoming).
Nicolaidis, K. & Mattheoudakis, M. 'Utopia vs Reality: the efficacy of in-service training
courses for EFL teachers'. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 4-6 May 2001. Thessaloniki, Greece (forthcoming).
Nicolaidis, K. & Mattheoudakis, M. Stirring the waters: University INSET in Greece (in
preparation).
Nicolaidis, K. & Mattheoudakis, M. The role of the university in the promotion of teacher
development (in preparation).
2/10/02
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