Language policy and language planning in Cyprus

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Acquiring Clitic Placement in Bilectal Settings: Interactions between Social Factors

“…(ii) Speakers from rural areas will employ more enclisis to a greater degree than speakers who live in urban areas. This claim is in line with studies that suggest a distinction between village CG and urban CG (e.g., Newton, 1972;Hadjioannou et al, 2011); previous research on CG clitic acquisition suggests that urban vs. rural place of residence influences clitic placement (Agathocleous et al, 2014). (iii) Gender and place of residence are not simplex phenomena but interact with each other (Eckert, 1999); hence, it is the interaction of these sociolinguistic factors that accounts for the acquisition of clitic placement.…”

“…Although not directly linked to executive control abilities (i.e., the "bilingual advantage" in cognitive development), there is a growing body of work on literary development in Cyprus, too, which is sensitive to the native CG variety in the context of SMG-dominant reading and writing instruction in school (e.g., Tsiplakou, 2006;Hadjioannou et al, 2011). Current research from Greece for SMG connects performance on executive control tasks explicitly with literary skills for monolingual and bilingual children (Andreou, 2015;Andreou and Tsimpli, unpublished bilingual, and monolingual children in several ongoing dissertations within the Cyprus Acquisition Team (CAT Lab).…”

“…It is often distinguished into "village CG" and "urban CG" (Newton, 1972). However, Hadjioannou et al (2011) suggest that post-1974, regional varieties are in the process of being leveled out due to demographic and social changes, and a Pancyprian koiné variety is fast emerging [see also Tsiplakou (2014)]. They argue that urban CG-in their terminology, the Pancyprian koiné, perhaps what Arvaniti (2010) calls Cypriot Standard Greek (CSG)-stands in a diglossic relationship to SMG 1 : CG is the sociolinguistic L(ow)-variety, and SMG is the superimposed H(igh)-variety.…”

“…They argue that urban CG-in their terminology, the Pancyprian koiné, perhaps what Arvaniti (2010) calls Cypriot Standard Greek (CSG)-stands in a diglossic relationship to SMG 1 : CG is the sociolinguistic L(ow)-variety, and SMG is the superimposed H(igh)-variety. Hadjioannou et al (2011) do not do full justice to local variability, though, that exists between village CG, namely the less prestigious varieties or basilects and the most prestigious urban CG (Newton, 1972;Goutsos and Karyolemou, 2004;Arvaniti, 2010). In addition, by assuming that SMG is the acrolectal form, they arguably presuppose that CG speakers should be perfect bilinguals, which 1 Ferguson (1959, p. 336) defines diaglossia as "a relatively stable language situation in which, in addition to the primary dialects of the language (which may include a standard or regional standards), there is a very divergent, highly codified (often grammatically more complex) superposed variety, the vehicle of a large and respected body of written literature, either of an earlier period or in another speech community, which is learned largely by formal education and is used for most written and formal spoken purposes but is not used by any section of the community for ordinary conversation.…”

Imperfect Acquisition of a Related Variety? Residual Clefting and What It Reveals about (Gradient) Bilectalism

“…Unlike other geographical Greek varieties, which have been leveled out or are undergoing sweeping processes of leveling (Contosopoulos, 1969), and despite the fact that diglossia between Cypriot and Standard Greek is still going strong (Papapavlou, 1998;Arvaniti, 2010;Hadjioannou et al, 2011;Tsiplakou, 2011;Rowe and Grohmann, 2013), Cypriot Greek is a variety that still by-and-large resists full dedialectalization (Tsiplakou, 2011(Tsiplakou, , 2014aRowe and Grohmann, 2013). 1 As has been argued in previous work, dense contact between Standard and Cypriot Greek as well as a host of historical, socio-political, economic, and demographic factors have spurred on currently ongoing processes of leveling of local varieties and the emergence of a pancypriot koine (Terkourafi, 2005;Tsiplakou, 2006Tsiplakou, , 2009aTsiplakou et al, 2006Tsiplakou and Kontogiorgi, 2016), which now stands in a diglossic relationship to Standard Modern Greek.…”