Eirini Apostolopoulou

Eirini Apostolopoulou, Postdoctoral Researcher (Area: Theoretical Linguistics), Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, A.U.Th.

E-mail: eiriapos@lit.auth.gr

Dr. Eirini Apostolopoulou has a PhD from the University of Verona and the University of Tromsø. She holds an MA in Theoretical Linguistics and a BA in Greek Philology with a Linguistics specialization, both from the Department of Linguistics at A.U.Th.). She is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Linguistics of the School of Philology at A.U.Th.

Her research interests centre on syllable organization, prosodic morphology, stress, and contact-induced typological change, with a primary focus on Greek and Romance dialects. She has presented her work at several international conferences (e.g. Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society – NELS, Manchester Phonology Meeting ‒ MFM, Old World Conference on Phonology ‒ OCP, Going Romance, International Conference on Greek Linguistics ‒ ICGL) and she has published at journals (Isogloss, Acta Linguistica Academica), conference proceedings, and thematic volumes (e.g. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics, in press, with J. Kokkelmans).

She has co-organized conferences (OCP16, Verona 2019; Sequencing in Phonology, Tromsø 2023). Since 2022, she has been teaching a variety of subjects (including phonology, morphology, syntax, dialectology, multilingualism, translation principles, minority languages) in BA programs at A.U.Th., Democritus University of Thrace, and New York College Thessaloniki (in collaboration with the University of Greenwich) as well as in the MA program in Applied Linguistics at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano. She has also been invited to teach phonology (with B. Alber) at the PhD Summer school in Linguistics of the University of Verona and the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano in July 2024. Gradient Harmonic Grammar is one of the main theoretical models she employs in her research (e.g., in her MA thesis as well as a series of conference presentations and publications since 2018). 

Role in GRADIENCE: Dr. Apostolopoulou’s contributions encompass the design and execution of experimental tasks, the construction of a GHG model for the analysis of Greek nominal stress, and publishing the research findings.