The Phonetics Laboratory

The Phonetics Laboratory of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the School of English was initially established in 1974 and formally founded in 1987. It is the first Phonetics Laboratory established in Greece. It supports research and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the following fields:

• speech production (articulation, acoustics) and speech perception
• phonological development of Greek-speaking monolingual and bilingual preschool and school children
• phonetic/phonological aspects of Greek dialects
• speech production in speech disorders, e.g. hearing impairment, Down syndrome
• phonetic/phonological analysis of speech production by learners of Greek as a foreign language
• methodology of pronunciation teaching
• materials design for pronunciation teaching
• development of computer applications for the teaching of Greek as a foreign language and for clinical intervention in communication disorders