Demetra kati


katiBasic Information:

Title: Professor
Area of Specialization: Psycholinguistics

Contact details:

Phone No: +30-210-3688404 Fax:+30-210-3688510
E-mail: dimkati@ecd.uoa.gr

Personal site:


Office hours: Announced in the beginning of each semester
Contact address: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Early Childhood Education

 


Academic information

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Education
  • B.Α. Psychology. 1974, Boston University.
  • Μ.Sc. Psychology in Education, 1977. Institute of Education, University of London.
  • Ph.D. Psychology (psycholinguistics). 1984. University of Reading.
Research interests
Language and Cognition, Language Development, Language and Education, Developmental Psychology.
Courses and Seminars
Undergraduate

  • Language Development
  • Language, Society and Mind
  • Language and Thought
  • Written Language, Society and Mind
  • Bilingualism and Education.

Graduate

  • Psychology of Language (Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens)
  • Language and Education (Dept. of Early Childhood Education, University of Athens and University of London).

 

Selected Publications

  • Kati D. (1992). Language and Communication in the Child. Athens: Odysseas. [In Greek]
  • Kati D., Kondyli M. & K. Nikiforidou (eds.). (1999). Language and Cognition. Athens: Alexandria. [In Greek].
  • Kati D. (2012) The Cognitive Role of Language: the contribution of the language and mind sciences. Athens: Nissos. [In Greek].
  • Katis D. (1997.) «The emergence of conditionals in child language: are they really so late?» Α. Athanasiadou & R. Dirven (eds.) On Conditionals Again, 335-386. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Kati D. & Μ. Kondyli. «Linguistic theory and issues of prescription/description». A.–F. Christidis (ed.) «Strong» and «weak» languages in the European Union. Aspects of linguistic hegemonism, Proceedings of an international conference, Thessaloniki: Centre for the Greek Language, Vol. I, 212-219. (δίγλωσση έκδοση). .
  • Maratsos Μ.P, Katis D. & Margheri A. (2000). «Can grammar make you feel different?». S. Νiemeier & R. Dirven (eds.), Evidence for Linguistic Relativity. 53-70. Amsterdam: Benjamins
  • Katis, D. & S. Selimis. (2006). «The development of metaphoric motion: evidence from Greek children’s narratives». R. T. Cover & Y. Kim (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Prosodic Variation and Change, 205-216. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
  • Κatis D. & Ch. Stampouliadou. (2009)«Τhe development of sentential complements in Greek: evidence from a case study». Constructions and Frames, 1:2, 221-260.
  • Selimis S. & D. Katis. (2010). «The emergence of nonliterality in spontaneous child speech: the case of Greek and English motion verbs». S. Rice & J. Newman (Eds.), Experimental and Empirical Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research, 127-142. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • Κatis D. & K. Nikiforidou. (2010). «Indeterminacy in grammar and acquisition: an interdisciplinary approach to relative clauses». Review of Cognitive Linguistics8:1, 1-18.

 

Additional Information
Scientific coordinator of research programs:
  • 1998-1999. “Language development”. University of Athens, Kapodistrias Program (code 70/4/106).
  • 2001-2002. “Language development”. University of Athens, Kapodistrias Program (code 70/4/106).
  • 2003-2004. “The acquisition of Greek as a first and a second language”. University of Athens, Kapodistrias Program (code 70/4/106).
  • 2002-2007. “Linguistic coding of the conceptual domain of motion: literal and metaphorical expressions in adult and child Greek”. Herakleitos Program, EPEAEK II (code 70/3/7144).
  • 2005-2006. “Complex sentences in the acquisition of Greek”, University of Athens, Kapodistrias Program (code 70/4/106).
  • 2005-2008. “Early language development in Greek: from prelinguistic vocalizations to the first words and the emergence of grammar”. Pythagoras II Program, EPEAEK II (code 70/3/7918).
  • 2007-2008. “Sentential complements in the acquisition of Greek”. University of Athens, ELKE, Kapodistrias Program (code 70/4/106).
  • 2009-2010 “Subordinate syntax in children speaking Greek as a first and as a second language”. University of Athens, Kapodistrias Program (code 70/4/106).

 

 

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