Marios Andreou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1720874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marios Andreou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marios |
| FAMILY NAME | Andreou |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREOU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7867-3163 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ambiguous pronoun resolution in Greek-speaking preschool children
Research on the resolution of ambiguous null and overt subject pronouns in child speakers of null subject languages has found that school-aged children do not exhibit robust preference for either subject or object referents, further suggesting that the operations underlying anaphora processing are still in development and have not yet attained adult-like status even at age 11. In addition to school-aged children, sensitivity to the properties of …
The Use of Internal State Terms by Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Internal state terms (ISTs) include words describing emotions, thoughts, volitions, obligations, desires, and perceptions. This scoping review aimed to map and synthesize evidence regarding the production of ISTs in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) without intellectual disability and to investigate the effects of age, gender, Theory of Mind (ToM) skills, and elicitation tasks on their production. A literature search was conducted m…
Task Effects on Sentence Comprehension in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
The present study compared two sentence-picture-matching tests in Greek, namely the Syntactic Proficiency Test and the sentence comprehension subtest of the Diagnostic Verbal Intelligence Quotient (DVIQ) battery, to assess complex sentence comprehension in 29 Greek-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Crucially, the DVIQ test included more foils and visual details than the Syntactic Proficiency Test. The study had three aims: (1…
Development and validation of a task battery for verbal and non-verbal first- and second-order theory of mind
This paper presents a new toolkit for assessing Theory of Mind (ToM) via performance in first and second-order false belief (FB) tasks. The toolkit includes verbal and non-verbal versions of first and second-order FB tasks; the verbal version is currently available in Greek and German. Scenarios in the toolkit are balanced for factors that may influence performance, like the reason for the FB (deception, change-of-location, unexpected content). T…
Reference maintenance in the narratives of Albanian–Greek and Russian–Greek children with Developmental Language Disorder
Although a considerable number of studies have shown D(eterminer) elements, i.e. determiners and pronominal clitics, to be particularly vulnerable to impairment in monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), little is known about the use of appropriate or/and grammatically correct referring expressions in the children’s narrative production. Grammars of languages that differ in the way they encode and realize their D system m…
Bilingual acquisition of reference
The present study aims to understand which factors contribute to different patterns of use of referring expressions by bilingual children, by considering the triangulation between language experience and proficiency, executive functions and cross-linguistic effects. We analyze reference use in Greek in the context of a narrative elicitation task as performed by 125 children of different language combinations, including Greek–Albanian, Greek–Engli…
Variation in the use and interpretation of null subjects
We aim to understand whether Greek and Italian, two null subject languages, differ in the use and interpretation of null subjects, based on evidence from both a production and a comprehension experiment. The results of the two experiments show that the two languages differ in the extent to which they comply with the Position of Antecedent Strategy as formulated by Carminati (2002). In order to account for this difference, we introduce a principle…
The Sharing of Reference Strategies across Two Languages
Several studies have observed that bilinguals tend to use and accept overspecified, redundant referring expressions in one of their two languages. This tendency has been mainly analysed as an effect of cross-linguistic influence (for instance, from a non-null-subject language to a null-subject one) or quantity and quality of language exposure. We aim to show that, beyond cross-linguistic and language-exposure effects, the use and acceptability of…
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
This paper presents an overview of the adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives in Greek, focusing on its use in Greek academic and diagnostic settings. A summary of the properties of the Greek language and the concomitant challenges these language-specific properties posed to MAIN adaptation are presented along with a summary of published studies with monolingual Greek-speaking children and bilingual children with Gree…
Theory of Mind, Executive Functions, and Syntax in Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Impairments in Theory of Mind (ToM) are a core feature of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ToM may be enhanced by various factors, including bilingualism, executive functions (EF), and complex syntax. This work investigates the language-cognition interface in ASD by exploring whether ToM can be enhanced by bilingualism, whether such ToM boosts would be due to EF or syntax, and whether routes to mentalizing would differ between bilinguals and monol…
Aspect and modality in the interpretation of deverbal -er nominals in English
Object Clitic production in monolingual and bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment
Pronominal clitics are sensitive to both morphosyntax and discourse. Problems in clitic use could therefore stem from morphosyntactic or discourse management problems in children with SLI. Previous studies focused on 3rd person clitic use identifying morphosyntactic problems. We compare 1st with 3rd person clitic elicitation by monolingual and bilingual children with SLI to examine whether perspective-switching in the same task would affect perfo…
Lexical negation in lexical semantics
Theory of Mind, Executive Functions, and Syntax in Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Impairments in Theory of Mind (ToM) are a core feature of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ToM may be enhanced by various factors, including bilingualism, executive functions (EF), and complex syntax. This work investigates the language-cognition interface in ASD by exploring whether ToM can be enhanced by bilingualism, whether such ToM boosts would be due to EF or syntax, and whether routes to mentalizing would differ between bilinguals and monol…
Aspect and modality in the interpretation of deverbal -er nominals in English
Lexical negation in lexical semantics
Object Clitic production in monolingual and bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment
Pronominal clitics are sensitive to both morphosyntax and discourse. Problems in clitic use could therefore stem from morphosyntactic or discourse management problems in children with SLI. Previous studies focused on 3rd person clitic use identifying morphosyntactic problems. We compare 1st with 3rd person clitic elicitation by monolingual and bilingual children with SLI to examine whether perspective-switching in the same task would affect perfo…
Aspect and modality in the interpretation of deverbal -er nominals in English
Variation in the use and interpretation of null subjects
We aim to understand whether Greek and Italian, two null subject languages, differ in the use and interpretation of null subjects, based on evidence from both a production and a comprehension experiment. The results of the two experiments show that the two languages differ in the extent to which they comply with the Position of Antecedent Strategy as formulated by Carminati (2002). In order to account for this difference, we introduce a principle…
The Sharing of Reference Strategies across Two Languages
Several studies have observed that bilinguals tend to use and accept overspecified, redundant referring expressions in one of their two languages. This tendency has been mainly analysed as an effect of cross-linguistic influence (for instance, from a non-null-subject language to a null-subject one) or quantity and quality of language exposure. We aim to show that, beyond cross-linguistic and language-exposure effects, the use and acceptability of…
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
This paper presents an overview of the adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives in Greek, focusing on its use in Greek academic and diagnostic settings. A summary of the properties of the Greek language and the concomitant challenges these language-specific properties posed to MAIN adaptation are presented along with a summary of published studies with monolingual Greek-speaking children and bilingual children with Gree…
Theory of Mind, Executive Functions, and Syntax in Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Impairments in Theory of Mind (ToM) are a core feature of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ToM may be enhanced by various factors, including bilingualism, executive functions (EF), and complex syntax. This work investigates the language-cognition interface in ASD by exploring whether ToM can be enhanced by bilingualism, whether such ToM boosts would be due to EF or syntax, and whether routes to mentalizing would differ between bilinguals and monol…
Bilingual acquisition of reference
The present study aims to understand which factors contribute to different patterns of use of referring expressions by bilingual children, by considering the triangulation between language experience and proficiency, executive functions and cross-linguistic effects. We analyze reference use in Greek in the context of a narrative elicitation task as performed by 125 children of different language combinations, including Greek–Albanian, Greek–Engli…
Reference maintenance in the narratives of Albanian–Greek and Russian–Greek children with Developmental Language Disorder
Although a considerable number of studies have shown D(eterminer) elements, i.e. determiners and pronominal clitics, to be particularly vulnerable to impairment in monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), little is known about the use of appropriate or/and grammatically correct referring expressions in the children’s narrative production. Grammars of languages that differ in the way they encode and realize their D system m…
Development and validation of a task battery for verbal and non-verbal first- and second-order theory of mind
This paper presents a new toolkit for assessing Theory of Mind (ToM) via performance in first and second-order false belief (FB) tasks. The toolkit includes verbal and non-verbal versions of first and second-order FB tasks; the verbal version is currently available in Greek and German. Scenarios in the toolkit are balanced for factors that may influence performance, like the reason for the FB (deception, change-of-location, unexpected content). T…
Task Effects on Sentence Comprehension in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
The present study compared two sentence-picture-matching tests in Greek, namely the Syntactic Proficiency Test and the sentence comprehension subtest of the Diagnostic Verbal Intelligence Quotient (DVIQ) battery, to assess complex sentence comprehension in 29 Greek-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Crucially, the DVIQ test included more foils and visual details than the Syntactic Proficiency Test. The study had three aims: (1…
Ambiguous pronoun resolution in Greek-speaking preschool children
Research on the resolution of ambiguous null and overt subject pronouns in child speakers of null subject languages has found that school-aged children do not exhibit robust preference for either subject or object referents, further suggesting that the operations underlying anaphora processing are still in development and have not yet attained adult-like status even at age 11. In addition to school-aged children, sensitivity to the properties of …
The Use of Internal State Terms by Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Internal state terms (ISTs) include words describing emotions, thoughts, volitions, obligations, desires, and perceptions. This scoping review aimed to map and synthesize evidence regarding the production of ISTs in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) without intellectual disability and to investigate the effects of age, gender, Theory of Mind (ToM) skills, and elicitation tasks on their production. A literature search was conducted m…
Linguistics (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Language Development and Disorders (7 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (4 works) · Cognition (4 works)