Georgios P Georgiou
Biographic Data
| ID | 935925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgios P Georgiou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgios P |
| FAMILY NAME | Georgiou |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGIOU G P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nicosia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7192-2649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Artificial intelligence in pronunciation teaching: Use and beliefs of foreign language teachers
This study investigates how in-service EFL teachers in Cyprus use AI for pronunciation teaching and how their beliefs about its pedagogical value vary across demographic and professional factors. Data were collected through an online survey completed by 117 teachers. The findings showed that teachers expressed the strongest agreement with statements reflecting openness to AI integration and willingness to receive further training, followed by bel…
Improving nonnative speech perception and production through an AI-powered application
While research on using artificial intelligence (AI) through various applications to enhance foreign language pronunciation is expanding, it has primarily focused on aspects such as comprehensibility and intelligibility, largely neglecting the improvement of individual speech sounds in both perception and production. This study seeks to address this gap by examining the impact of training with an AI-powered mobile application on nonnative sound p…
Subject position in Greek and Spanish monolingual and bilingual production: Exploring the influence of verb type and definiteness
This research study aims to capture linguistic variation in subject distribution in monolingual and bilingual speakers of an understudied language combination of two null subject languages, following the premises of the Interface Hypothesis (IH). Greek and Chilean Spanish are examined with a focus on subject-verb (SV) inversion in neutral contexts as influenced by two factors: verb type and subject definiteness. Oral semi-structured narratives we…
ChatGPT Exhibits Bias Toward Developed Countries Over Developing Ones, as Indicated by a Sentiment Analysis Approach
This study analyzes how ChatGPT characterizes developed and developing countries using a sentiment analysis framework. We selected 10 countries with the highest Human Development Index (HDI) and 10 countries with the lowest. The sentiment analysis provided scores indicating the degree of positivity in the descriptions of these countries provided by ChatGPT. The results revealed that ChatGPT generally expressed positive sentiments about all countr…
Exploring Acoustic Overlap in Second Language Vowel Productions
This study examines the alignment of vowel categories between second language (L2) learners and first language (L1) speakers of the target language, as well as potential overlaps between adjacent vowels in terms of formant frequencies and duration. It involved adult L2 English learners with a Cypriot Greek L1 background who were enrolled in English language and literature courses. Participants engaged in a speech production task and were asked to…
Differences in voice quality measures among monolingual and bilingual speakers
While extensive research exists on the variations in voice quality measures among different languages, the impact of bilingualism on voice characteristics has been relatively understudied in the literature. This study explores the divergences among monolingual and bilingual speakers in various voice quality measures. The participants were adult Greek monolingual and adult Albanian-Greek sequential bilingual speakers, who permanently lived in Gree…
Classification of English vowels in terms of Cypriot Greek categories: The role of acoustic similarity between L1 and L2 sounds
Previous evidence has suggested that acoustic similarity between first language (L1) and second language (L2) sounds is an accurate indicator of the speakers’ L2 classification patterns. This study investigates this assumption by examining how speakers of an under-researched language, namely Cypriot Greek, classify L2 English vowels in terms of their L1 categories. The experimental protocol relied on a perception and a production study. For the p…
Discrimination of Second Language Vowel Contrasts and the Role of Phonological Short-Term Memory and Nonverbal Intelligence
Although extensive research has focused on the perceptual abilities of second language (L2) learners, a significant gap persists in understanding how cognitive functions like phonological short-term memory (PSTM) and nonverbal intelligence (IQ) impact L2 speech perception. This study sets out to investigate the discrimination of L2 English monophthongal vowel contrasts and to assess the effect of PSTM and nonverbal IQ on L2 speech perception. The…
The Impact of Auditory Perceptual Training on the Perception and Production of English Vowels by Cypriot Greek Children and Adults
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of auditory perceptual phonetic training on the identification and production of English vowels by Cypriot Greek children and adults. Another two groups of Cypriot Greek child and adult speakers served as controls. The trained groups participated in the pretest, training, and posttest phase, while the controls completed only the pretest and posttest phase. The results showed that perceptual t…
Vowel learning in diglossic settings: Evidence from Arabic-Greek learners
Aim and questions: Second language learners are often acquiring a second language (L2) in multilingual and bidialectal sociolinguistic environments. The competing pronunciations can be challenging to language learners. This study aims to determine the effects of language variety—standard variety versus local variety—on L2 vowel learning. Methodology: Vowel productions from 55 speakers were analyzed in the study; 10 speakers of Egyptian Arabic wer…
How Do Speakers of a Language with a Transparent Orthographic System Perceive the L2 Vowels of a Language with an Opaque Orthographic System? An Analysis through a Battery of Behavioral Tests
Background: The present study aims to investigate the effect of the first language (L1) orthography on the perception of the second language (L2) vowel contrasts and whether orthographic effects occur at the sublexical level. Methods: Fourteen adult Greek learners of English participated in two AXB discrimination tests: one auditory and one orthography test. In the auditory test, participants listened to triads of auditory stimuli that targeted s…
Effects of Phonetic Training on the Discrimination of Second Language Sounds by Learners with Naturalistic Access to the Second Language
Vocabulary Size Leads to Better Attunement to L2 Phonetic Differences: Clues from Russian Learners of English
Previous research has shown that an increased second language (L2) vocabulary size leads to better attunement to the cues required to distinguish L2 contrastive phones. This has been the central tenet of the vocabulary-tuning model (vocab) on the basis of evidence by Japanese learners of English in Australia. We aim to test the validity of the aforementioned hypothesis by extending the research for learners with a different first language (L1) ba…
Discrimination of Uncategorized-Categorized and Uncategorized-Uncategorized Greek consonantal contrasts by Russian speakers
The purpose of this study is to investigate the discriminability of two different assimilation types, the Uncategorized-Categorized (UC) and the Uncategorized-Uncategorized assimilation (UU) (Best and Tyler, 2007), as reflected in the discrimination accuracy and reaction times towards non-native contrasts by Russian speakers. The discriminability of these assimilation types varies in the literature. To this purpose, the same Russian speakers who …
EFL teachers’ cognitions about pronunciation in Cyprus
Neglecting pronunciation in the instruction of foreign languages is quite common both worldwide [Derwing, T. M., and M. J. Murno, 2005. “Second Language Accent and Pronunciation Teaching: A Research-Based Approach.” TESOL Quarterly 39 (3): 379–397] and in Greek-Cypriot classrooms [Kyprianou, M. 2015. “Teaching and Learning English Pronunciation in Cyprus: Survey, Analysis and Challenges.” PhD diss., University of Cyprus]. The present study aims t…
Bit and beat are heard as the same: Mapping the vowel perceptual patterns of Greek-English bilingual children
EFL teachers’ cognitions about pronunciation in Cyprus
Neglecting pronunciation in the instruction of foreign languages is quite common both worldwide [Derwing, T. M., and M. J. Murno, 2005. “Second Language Accent and Pronunciation Teaching: A Research-Based Approach.” TESOL Quarterly 39 (3): 379–397] and in Greek-Cypriot classrooms [Kyprianou, M. 2015. “Teaching and Learning English Pronunciation in Cyprus: Survey, Analysis and Challenges.” PhD diss., University of Cyprus]. The present study aims t…
Effects of Phonetic Training on the Discrimination of Second Language Sounds by Learners with Naturalistic Access to the Second Language
Bit and beat are heard as the same: Mapping the vowel perceptual patterns of Greek-English bilingual children
EFL teachers’ cognitions about pronunciation in Cyprus
Neglecting pronunciation in the instruction of foreign languages is quite common both worldwide [Derwing, T. M., and M. J. Murno, 2005. “Second Language Accent and Pronunciation Teaching: A Research-Based Approach.” TESOL Quarterly 39 (3): 379–397] and in Greek-Cypriot classrooms [Kyprianou, M. 2015. “Teaching and Learning English Pronunciation in Cyprus: Survey, Analysis and Challenges.” PhD diss., University of Cyprus]. The present study aims t…
Bit and beat are heard as the same: Mapping the vowel perceptual patterns of Greek-English bilingual children
Vocabulary Size Leads to Better Attunement to L2 Phonetic Differences: Clues from Russian Learners of English
Previous research has shown that an increased second language (L2) vocabulary size leads to better attunement to the cues required to distinguish L2 contrastive phones. This has been the central tenet of the vocabulary-tuning model (vocab) on the basis of evidence by Japanese learners of English in Australia. We aim to test the validity of the aforementioned hypothesis by extending the research for learners with a different first language (L1) ba…
Discrimination of Uncategorized-Categorized and Uncategorized-Uncategorized Greek consonantal contrasts by Russian speakers
The purpose of this study is to investigate the discriminability of two different assimilation types, the Uncategorized-Categorized (UC) and the Uncategorized-Uncategorized assimilation (UU) (Best and Tyler, 2007), as reflected in the discrimination accuracy and reaction times towards non-native contrasts by Russian speakers. The discriminability of these assimilation types varies in the literature. To this purpose, the same Russian speakers who …
Vowel learning in diglossic settings: Evidence from Arabic-Greek learners
Aim and questions: Second language learners are often acquiring a second language (L2) in multilingual and bidialectal sociolinguistic environments. The competing pronunciations can be challenging to language learners. This study aims to determine the effects of language variety—standard variety versus local variety—on L2 vowel learning. Methodology: Vowel productions from 55 speakers were analyzed in the study; 10 speakers of Egyptian Arabic wer…
How Do Speakers of a Language with a Transparent Orthographic System Perceive the L2 Vowels of a Language with an Opaque Orthographic System? An Analysis through a Battery of Behavioral Tests
Background: The present study aims to investigate the effect of the first language (L1) orthography on the perception of the second language (L2) vowel contrasts and whether orthographic effects occur at the sublexical level. Methods: Fourteen adult Greek learners of English participated in two AXB discrimination tests: one auditory and one orthography test. In the auditory test, participants listened to triads of auditory stimuli that targeted s…
Effects of Phonetic Training on the Discrimination of Second Language Sounds by Learners with Naturalistic Access to the Second Language
The Impact of Auditory Perceptual Training on the Perception and Production of English Vowels by Cypriot Greek Children and Adults
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of auditory perceptual phonetic training on the identification and production of English vowels by Cypriot Greek children and adults. Another two groups of Cypriot Greek child and adult speakers served as controls. The trained groups participated in the pretest, training, and posttest phase, while the controls completed only the pretest and posttest phase. The results showed that perceptual t…
Differences in voice quality measures among monolingual and bilingual speakers
While extensive research exists on the variations in voice quality measures among different languages, the impact of bilingualism on voice characteristics has been relatively understudied in the literature. This study explores the divergences among monolingual and bilingual speakers in various voice quality measures. The participants were adult Greek monolingual and adult Albanian-Greek sequential bilingual speakers, who permanently lived in Gree…
Classification of English vowels in terms of Cypriot Greek categories: The role of acoustic similarity between L1 and L2 sounds
Previous evidence has suggested that acoustic similarity between first language (L1) and second language (L2) sounds is an accurate indicator of the speakers’ L2 classification patterns. This study investigates this assumption by examining how speakers of an under-researched language, namely Cypriot Greek, classify L2 English vowels in terms of their L1 categories. The experimental protocol relied on a perception and a production study. For the p…
Discrimination of Second Language Vowel Contrasts and the Role of Phonological Short-Term Memory and Nonverbal Intelligence
Although extensive research has focused on the perceptual abilities of second language (L2) learners, a significant gap persists in understanding how cognitive functions like phonological short-term memory (PSTM) and nonverbal intelligence (IQ) impact L2 speech perception. This study sets out to investigate the discrimination of L2 English monophthongal vowel contrasts and to assess the effect of PSTM and nonverbal IQ on L2 speech perception. The…
Subject position in Greek and Spanish monolingual and bilingual production: Exploring the influence of verb type and definiteness
This research study aims to capture linguistic variation in subject distribution in monolingual and bilingual speakers of an understudied language combination of two null subject languages, following the premises of the Interface Hypothesis (IH). Greek and Chilean Spanish are examined with a focus on subject-verb (SV) inversion in neutral contexts as influenced by two factors: verb type and subject definiteness. Oral semi-structured narratives we…
ChatGPT Exhibits Bias Toward Developed Countries Over Developing Ones, as Indicated by a Sentiment Analysis Approach
This study analyzes how ChatGPT characterizes developed and developing countries using a sentiment analysis framework. We selected 10 countries with the highest Human Development Index (HDI) and 10 countries with the lowest. The sentiment analysis provided scores indicating the degree of positivity in the descriptions of these countries provided by ChatGPT. The results revealed that ChatGPT generally expressed positive sentiments about all countr…
Exploring Acoustic Overlap in Second Language Vowel Productions
This study examines the alignment of vowel categories between second language (L2) learners and first language (L1) speakers of the target language, as well as potential overlaps between adjacent vowels in terms of formant frequencies and duration. It involved adult L2 English learners with a Cypriot Greek L1 background who were enrolled in English language and literature courses. Participants engaged in a speech production task and were asked to…
Artificial intelligence in pronunciation teaching: Use and beliefs of foreign language teachers
This study investigates how in-service EFL teachers in Cyprus use AI for pronunciation teaching and how their beliefs about its pedagogical value vary across demographic and professional factors. Data were collected through an online survey completed by 117 teachers. The findings showed that teachers expressed the strongest agreement with statements reflecting openness to AI integration and willingness to receive further training, followed by bel…
Improving nonnative speech perception and production through an AI-powered application
While research on using artificial intelligence (AI) through various applications to enhance foreign language pronunciation is expanding, it has primarily focused on aspects such as comprehensibility and intelligibility, largely neglecting the improvement of individual speech sounds in both perception and production. This study seeks to address this gap by examining the impact of training with an AI-powered mobile application on nonnative sound p…
Psychology (14 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (13 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Vowel (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Perception (7 works) · Formant (4 works) · Speech perception (4 works) · Speech recognition (4 works)