2023
Κυρίτση, Ε., Ματθαιουδάκη, Μ., Βαρλοκώστα, Σ., & Γενά, Α. (2023). Διλήμματα, επιλογές και κοινωνικές προεκτάσεις σε δίγλωσσες οικογένειες παιδιών με αυτισμό. Προφορική ανακοίνωση στην 43η Ετήσια Συνάντηση του Τομέα Γλωσσολογίας ΑΠΘ, 4-7 Μαΐου 2023.
Panagopoulos, P., Andria, M., Mikros, G., & Varlokosta, S. (2023). A proposal for the annotation of a corpus of Greek as a second/foreign language: The LETGR2 protocol. Oral presentation at the 43rd Meeting of the Linguistics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, May 2023.
Κυρίτση, E., & Βαρλοκώστα, Σ. (2023). Γλώσσα και κλιματική κρίση: εκπαιδευτικές και κοινωνικές προεκτάσεις για άτομα με δυσκολίες στη γλώσσα και την επικοινωνία. Προφορική ανακοίνωση στο 2ο Συνέδριο του ΕΚΠΑ Για την Κλιματική Κρίση, Αθήνα, 15/3/2023-16/3/2023.
Nerantzini, M., Koukourava, E., Tzeli, G., Varlokosta, S., & Terzi, A. (2023). Assessing the severity of language deficits in Greek aphasia: Validation of the Computerized Token Test. 8th Nordic Aphasia Conference (NAC), Reykjavík, Iceland, 14-16 June.
Varlokosta, S., Nerantzini, M., Efstratiadou, E., Mpentevi, E., Arhonti, A., & Papathanasiou, I. (2023). The Greek Lexical and Grammatical Aphasia Assessment Test (LexiGrAph): Validation of a comprehensive aphasia language battery in Greek. 8th Nordic Aphasia Conference (NAC), Reykjavík, Iceland, 14-16 June.
Peristeri, E., Nerantzini, M., Drakoulaki, K., Mpoznou, A., Andrikopoulou, A., & Varlokosta, S. (2023). Relations between executive functions and narrative production in individuals with Broca’s aphasia. 8th Nordic Aphasia Conference (NAC), Reykjavík, Iceland, 14-16 June.
2022
Stamouli, S., Nerantzini, M., Dimou, N., Katsamanis, A., Chatzoudis, G., Plitsis, E., Papakyritsis, I., Katsouros, V., Varlokosta, S. & Terzi, A. (2022). A web-based method for the remote and in-person elicitation of narrative discourse from language impaired and unimpaired individuals. Poster presentation. 11th European Congress of Speech and Language Therapy, ESLA Congress, Salzburg, Austria, May 2022.
Tsinivits, D., Peristeri, E., & Varlokosta, S. (2022). Macrostructure and microstructure in the narratives of autistic and gifted children. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, May 2022.
Kyritsi, E., Stefanaki, A., Gena, A., & Varlokosta, S. (2022). Syntactic properties in parental linguistic input of a Greek-speaking child with ASD: Results from a naturalistic intervention approach. Oral presentation at the 25th International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 13-15 May 2022.
Kyritsi, E., & Nicolaidis, K. Speechreading in hearing and hearing-impaired Greek-speaking adults. 25th International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 13-15 May 2022.
Kyritsi, E. & Varlokosta, S. (2022). The social dimension of language impairment. SOAS Glocal COMELA 2022. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, July 2022.
Drakoulaki, K., Nerantzini, M., Peristeri, E., & Varlokosta, S. (2022). Investigating syntactic ambiguity within the lens of executive functions in atypical populations: eye tracking as a pre- and post-cognitive therapy measure. European Summer School on Eye Movements. Bonn: Germany, September 2022.
Kolokytha, I., Arfani, D., & Varlokosta, S. (2022). The role of number, gender and case mismatch in the comprehension of object relative clauses in child Greek. Poster presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 15). Goethe University Frankfurt, September 22–24, 2022.
2021
Kyritsi, E. (2021). Factors affecting foreign language teaching and learning in students with special educational needs: the case of hearing-impaired students. Foreign Languages in Special Education. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1-2 July 2021.
Fragkopoulou, K., Manouilidou, Ch., & Varlokosta, S. (2021). Comprehension of number agreement in strong personal pronouns and clitics: Evidence from Greek-speaking individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease. Oral presentation in the International Online Workshop on Language in Healthy and Pathological Aging, 29-30 April 2021.
Arfani, D., Tsapkini, K., & Varlokosta, S. (2021) On the comprehension of relative clauses in mild AD: The role of feature mismatch in the subject and object DPs. Poster presented at the 59th Academy of Aphasia annual meeting, October 24-26, 2021, Online.
Stephanaki, A., Gena, A., Gkogkos, G. & Varlokosta, S. (2021). Autism, attachment and parent training: A naturalistic systemic analytic model. Oral presentation at the 23rd International Conference on Autism, 25-26 March 2021, Madrid, Spain.
Arfani, D., Tsapkini, K., & Varlokosta, S. (2021). A Relativized Minimality approach to the comprehension of relative clauses in Alzheimer’s disease: the role of number and gender. Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, 13-15 May 2021, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Thessaloniki.
Teslika, K., Dikeos, D., Lazaratou, E., Varlokosta, S. & Vlassopoulos, M. (2021). Assessing spatial cognition in dyslexia and developmental language disorders, Poster presentation in the 1st International Congress on Speech and Language Therapy, May 2021. Online.
Drakoulaki, K., Anagnostopoulou, C., Guasti, M-T., Tillman, B., & Varlokosta, S. (2021). Potential relations between language skills with music skills and general cognitive skills in pre-schoolers. 16th International Conference on Music, Perception and Cognition and 11th
triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. July 2021.
Drakoulaki, K., Anagnostopoulou, C., Guasti, M. T., Tillmann, B., & Varlokosta, S. (2021, July). Language, executive functions, and rhythm abilities in Greek pre-schoolers: A correlational approach. Presented at The Neurosciences and Music - VII. Connecting with Music across the
Lifespan. July 2021.
Nerantzini, M., Dimou, N., Stamouli, P., Papakyritsis, I., Varlokosta, S., & Terzi, A. (2021) PLan-V: A computer-based speech/language therapy platform for people with chronic neurogenic communication disorders. Oral presentation. British Aphasiology Society Conference, Newcastle University, September 2021.
Kamona, X., Peristeri, E., & Varlokosta, S. (2021). The role of verbal working memory and inhibition in the comprehension of relative clauses in Greek-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Oral presentation in the 2nd Brain and Mind Congress, 17-18 December 2021, Athens, Greece.
2020
Varlokosta, S., & Peristeri, E. (2020). Relativized minimality effects in the comprehension of subject- and object-relative clauses in non-fluent variant Primary Progressive Aphasia. Poster presentation. 58th Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, 18-20 October 2020, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Kokkinioti, M. & Varlokosta, S. (2020). Research methodology for assessment of oral skills in elementary school. Oral presentation at the14th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2020), 2-4 March 2020, Valancia, Spain.
Kokkinioti, M. & Varlokosta, S. (2020). Oral skills in elementary school: Characteristics and correlation with reading skills. Poster presentation at the Oral presentation at the14th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2020), 2-4 March 2020, Valancia, Spain.
Economou, A., Routsis, Ch., Papageorgiou, S. & Varlokosta S. (2020). Nonverbal cognitive deficits in left-hemisphere aphasic patients: relationship with sites of lesion and linguistic measures. 6thEuropean Academy of Neurology Congress, 23-26 May 2020. Paris, France.
Vlachou, E., Kotopoulis, D., & Varlokosta, S. (2020). On the acquisition of free choice items. Oral presentation at the 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 12-14 October 2020, Athens, Greece.
Arfani, D., Tsapkini, K., & Varlokosta, S. (2020). Syntax or working memory impairment in mild Alzheimer’s Disease? Poster presented at the 58th Academy of Aphasia annual meeting, October 18-20, 2020, Online.
2019
Arfani, D., Nerantzini, M., Papageorgiou, S., & Varlokosta, S. Comprehension of wh-questions and relative clauses in Greek-speaking individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. Oral presentation at the 14th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL 14), 6-8 September 2019, Patras, Greece.
2018
Rentoumi V., Arfani, D., Fragkopoulou, K., Paliouras, G., & Varlokosta, S. (2018). Automatic extraction of linguistic features in Alzheimer’s disease: A computational approach. Oral presentation at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philosophy, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Rentoumi V., Arfani, D., Fragkopoulou, K., Paliouras, G., & Varlokosta, S. (2018). Automatic detection of linguistic indicators as a means of early prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease. Language Disorders in Greek-LDG07, 2-3 June 2018, Athens, Greece.
Rentoumi V., Paliouras, G., Arfani, D., Fragkopoulou, K., & Varlokosta, S. (2018). Automatic detection of linguistic indicators as a means of early prediction of Alzheimer’s and of related dementias: A cross linguistics analysis. Poster presentation at the Alzheimer Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018, 22-26 July 2018, Chicago, USA.
Markopoulos, G., Nerantzini, M., Karasimos, A., Stamouli, S., Kakavoulia, M., Economou, A., & Varlokosta, S. The microstructure of narratives in aphasia. Poster presentation at the 7th Language Disorders in Greek, 2-3 June 2018, Athens, Greece.
Tzovara, V., Papadopoulou, D., Nerantzini, M., & Varlokosta, S. Syntactic gender agreement in Modern Greek as a second language. Oral presentation at the workshop Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender (ThEGen), 14-15 June 2018, Leibniz-Center General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany.
Economou, A., Varlokosta, S., & Papageorgiou, S. G. The Nonverbal CogScreen as a screening tool for limited language dementia patients. European Academy of Neurology, 16-19 June 2018, Lisbon, Portugal.
2017
Fyndanis, V., Lind, M., Balčiūnienė, I., Bjekić, J., Ceder, K., Gavarró, A., Grohmann, K. K., Haaland-Johansen, L., Jacquemot, C., Blom Johansson, M., Kambanaros, M., Kovacevic, M., Kuvač, J., Martínez-Ferreiro, S., Méndez-Orellana, C., Rofes, A., Røste, I., Hernández Sacristán, C., Salmons, I., Simonsen, H. G., Soroli, E., Sör, I., Vuksanović, J., Zakariás, L., Varlokosta, S., & Howard, D. “Cross-linguistic adaptations of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test." Oral presentation at the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists’ (CATs) final conference, 08.02.2017, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Rofes, A., Zakariás, L., Ceder, K., Lind, M., Bloom Johansson, M., Bjekić, J., Fyndanis, V., Gavarró, A., Simonsen, H. G., Hernández-Sacristán, C., Kuvač Kraljević, J., Martínez-Ferreiro, S., Mavis, I., Méndez Orellana, C., Meteyard, L., Salmons, I., Sör, I., Tunçer, M., Vuksanovic, J., Varlokosta, S., & Howard, D. “Word imageability from a cross-linguistic perspective.” Oral presentation. Oral presentation at the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists’ (CATs) final conference, 08.02.2017, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Varlokosta, S., Efstratiadou, E., Wartenburger, I., Burchert, F., Killmer, H., Chatziantoniou, L., Potagas, C., & Fyndanis, V. “Morphosyntactic production in Greek-German bilingual agrammatic aphasia: A case study.” Oral presentation at the 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism, 13.06.2017, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Rentoumi V., Paliouras, G., Danasi, E., Arfani, D., Fragkopoulou, K., Varlokosta, S., & Papadatos, S. (2017). Automatic detection of linguistic indicators as a means of early detection of Alzheimer’s and of related dementias: A computational linguistics analysis. Oral presentation in the 2017 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 11-14 September 2017, Debrecen, Hungary.
Nerantzini, M., Drakopoulou, P., Varlokosta, S., & Thompson, C. Linguistic treatment in Greek agrammatic aphasia. Oral presentation at the 1st international conference of Speech and Language Therapy, 10-12 November 2017, Ioannina, Greece.
Nerantzini, M., Drakopoulou, P., Varlokosta, S., & Thompson, C. Assessing grammatical deficits in Greek aphasia using the Northwestern Assessment of verbs and sentences (NAVS) and the Northwestern Anagram Task (NAT).Oral presentation at the 1st international conference of Speech and Language Therapy, 10-12 November 2017, Ioannina, Greece.
Varlokosta, S., Iakovou, M., Giagkou, M., Kantzou, V., Papadopoulou, D., Stamouli, S., & Tzevelekou, M. (2017). Diagnostic tools for assessing foreign students in Greek schools. Oral presentation at the Conference of the School of Philosophy The Greek School Today, 1-2 December 2017, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Kyritsi, E. (2017). Teaching English to deaf and hard-of-hearing students through Health Education. 23rd International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
2016
Rofes, A., Zakariás, L., Ceder, K., Lind, M., Bloom Johansson, M., Bjekić, J., Fyndanis, V., Gavarró, A., Simonsen, H. G., Hernández-Sacristán, C., Kuvač Kraljević, J., Martínez-Ferreiro, S., Mavis, I., Méndez Orellana, C., Meteyard, L., Salmons, I., Sör, I., Tunçer, M., Vuksanovic, J., Varlokosta, S., & Howard, D. “Word imageability from a cross-linguistic perspective.” Poster presentation at the 17th Science of Aphasia International Conference, 25-30 28.09.2016, Venice, Italy.
Fyndanis, V., Arfani, D., Burgio, F., Maculan, A., Palla, F., Varlokosta, S., Papageorgiou, S., Cagnin, A., & Semenza, C. “Morphosyntactic production in Greek and Italian probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from agreement, tense, and mood.” Oral presentation at the 17th Science of Aphasia International Conference, 26.09.2016, Venice, Italy.
Fyndanis, V., Arcara, G., Arfani, D., Burchert, F., Burgio, F., Cagnin, A., Capasso, R., Christidou, P., Gandolfi, M., Killmer, H. G., Maculan, A., Messinis, L., Miceli, G., Palla, F., Panagea, E., Papageorgiou, S., Papathanasopoulos, P., De Pellegrin, S., Semenza, C., Smania, N., Varlokosta, S., & Wartenburger, I. “Time reference in agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer’s disease: A cross-linguistic test of the PAst DIscourse LInking Hypothesis." Oral presentation at the 54th Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting. 18.10.2016, Llandudno, Wales, UK.
Kontari, P., Economou, A., Beratis, I., Kontaxopoulou, D., Fragkiadaki, S., Papageorgiou, S., & Varlokosta, S. Comparison of a non-linguistic screening test, the Nonverbal Cogscreen, with the MMSE in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cognitively intact individuals. AAT: 14th International Athens/Springfield Symposium on Advances in Alzheimer Therapy, 9-12 March 2016, Athens, Greece.
Ioannou, S., Varlokosta, S., Zombolou, K., Alexiadou, A., & Vlassopoulou, M. “The acquisition of reflexive, reciprocal, anticausative and deponent verbs by monolingual Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment”. Poster presentation at the 13th Conference of the Panhellenic Speech and Language Therapists, 21.5.2016, Athens, Greece.
Varlokosta, S., Stamouli, S., Karasimos, A., Markopoulos, G., Kakavoulia, M., Nerantzini, M., Pantoula, A., Fyndanis, V., Economou, A., & Protopapas, A. “A Greek corpus of aphasic discourse: Collection, transcription, and annotation specifications.” Oral presentation at the workshop Resources and Processing of Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/Psychiatric Impairments (RaPID-2016), 23.05.2016, Portorož, Slovenia.
Nerantzini, M., Drakopoulou, P., Varlokosta, S., & Thompson, C. (2016). Linguistic generalizations following language treatment in Greek agrammatic aphasia. Presented at the 6th international conference on Language Disorders in Greek, 3-4 June, Patras, Greece.
Fyndanis, V., Miceli, G., Semenza, C., Christidou, P., Killmer, H.G., Capasso, R., Burchert, F., de Pellegrin, S., Gandolfi, M., Smania, N., Messinis, L., Papathanasopoulos, P., Panagea, E., Papageorgiou, S., Varlokosta, S., & Wartenburger, I. “Time reference in Greek, Italian and German agrammatic aphasia: A test of the PAst DIscource Linking Hypothesis.” Oral presentation at the 16th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) Conference, Halifax, Canada, 16.06.2016.
Lind, M., Fyndanis, V., Balčiūnienė, I., Bjekić, J., Ceder, K., Gavarró, A., Grohmann, K., Haaland-Johansen, L., Jacquemot, C., Johansson, M.B., Kambanaros, M., Kovacevic, M., Kuvač, J., Martínez-Ferreiro, S., Méndez-Orellana, C., Rofes, A., Røste, I., Hernández Sacristán, C., Simonsen, H.G., Soroli, E., Sör, I., Varlokosta, S., Vuksanović, J., Zakariás, L., & Howard, D. “Cross-linguistic adaptations of The Comprehensive Aphasia Test: challenges and solutions.” Oral presentation at the 16th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) Conference, 16.06.2016, Halifax, Canada.
Nerantzini, M., Drakopoulou, P., Varlokosta, S., & Thompson, C. (2016). The Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences (NAVS) and the Northwestern Anagram Task (NAT) as tools to assess grammatical deficits in Greek aphasia. Presented at the 17th Science of Aphasia conference, 25-30 September, Venice, Italy.
Nerantzini, M., Apostolopoulou, S., Varlokosta, S., & Bastiaanse, R. (2016). Time reference and Tense marking in Greek agrammatism. Evidence from narratives and a sentence completion task. Presented at the 17th Science of Aphasia conference, 25-30 September, Venice, Italy.
2015
Sauerland, U., Grohmann, K., Guasti, M.T., Anđelković, D., Argus, R., Armon-Lotem, S., Arosio, F., Avram, L., Costa, J., Dabašinskienė, I., de López, K., Gatt, D., Grech, H., Haman, E., van Hout, A., Hrzica, G., Kainhofer, J., Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė, L., Kunnari, S., Kovačević, M., Kuvac, J., Lipowska, K.K., Mejias, S., Popović, M., Ruzaite, J., Savić, M., Sevcenco, A., Varlokosta, S., Varnava, M., & Yatsushiro, K. (2015). How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe. Poster presentation at the 12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, University of Nantes, France. 10-12 September 2015.
Nerantzini, M., Fyndanis, V., Terzi, A., & Varlokosta, S. “Case and agreement in Greek aphasia: Evidence from comprehension.” Oral presentation at the 16th Science of Aphasia International Conference, 17-22 September. 19.09.2015, Aveiro, Portugal.
Fyndanis, V., Christidou, V., Papageorgiou, S., & Varlokosta, S. “(Morpho)syntactic production in Greek-speaking agrammatic aphasia: A test of competing theories.” Poster presentation at the 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. 18.09.2015, Berlin, Germany.
Konstantzou, K., Varlokosta, S., & Vlassopoulos, M. Compounding in Greek child language: Evidence from typical development and specific language impairment. Poster presentation at the 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. 18.09.2015, Berlin, Germany.
Fyndanis, V., Christidou, P., Papageorgiou, S., & Varlokosta, S. “Morphosyntactic and syntactic production in Greek-speaking agrammatic aphasia: None of the existing theories can fully account for the patterns of performance.” Poster presentation at the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists’ (CATs) conference Future Directions for Aphasia Research. 06.03.2015, City University, London, UK.
Alexandri, Ch., Nerantzini, M., & Varlokosta, S. “Do children with Down syndrome have difficulties in the formation of syntactic chains? Presented at the Advances in Sciences of Language Disorders (ASLD), University of Cyprus, 20-21 June, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Varlokosta, S., Nerantzini, M., Fyndanis, V., Peristeri, E., & Terzi, A. “Case in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from production and grammaticality judgment.” Oral presentation at the workshop Advances in the Sciences of Language Disorders. University of Cyprus, 20.06.2015, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Apostolopoulou, S., Varlokosta, S., Nerantzini, M., Fyndanis, V., Terzi, A., Routsis, C., Economou, A., & Papageorgiou, S. “Syntactic deficits in primary progressive aphasia: Evidence from Greek.” Oral presentation at the workshop Advances in the Sciences of Language Disorders, University of Cyprus, 19-20 June. (20 June 2015, Nicosia, Cyprus).
2014
K. Konstantzou, A. Van Hout & Varlokosta, S. “Asymmetrical development of grammatical aspect: Evidence from typical development and Specific Language Impairment”. Oral presentation, CHRONOS 11, 16-18/06/2014, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.
Fyndanis, V., Nerantzini, M., Terzi, A., & Varlokosta, S. “Structural case in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from Greek.” Poster presentation at the 15th Science of Aphasia International Conference, 19-24 September. 20.09.2014, Venice, Italy.
