Maria Lialiou
Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I
Sprachwissenschaft
SFB 1252 Prominence in Language, project A01
Luxemburger Str. 299, Raum 3.10
Tel: (+49) 221 - 470 89914
Email: mlialiouuni-koeln.de

Research interests
- Intonation and Prosody
- Laboratory Phonology and Articulation
- Speech and Language Processing
- Neurolinguistics
Biography
- EDUCATION
07/2021 – pres.
Ph.D. student in Linguistics, CRC ‘Prominence in Language’, project A01,
Department of German Language and Literature I Linguistics, University of Cologne, Germany
Working Title: The processing of rises and falls.
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher and Prof. Dr. Martine Grice
10/2018 – 03/2021
M.Sc. in Experimental and Clinical Linguistics with distinction (1,2)
Department of Linguistics, Potsdam Universität, Germany
Thesis Title: Syllabic structure and temporal organization in /sC/ sequences.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Adamantios I. Gafos and Dr. Stavroula Sotiropoulou
04 – 09/2016
Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Program for B.A. studies in Linguistics,
Department of Linguistics, Potsdam Universität, Germany
10/2013 – 07/2017
B.A. in Linguistics with a minor in Philology very good (8,10/10 final grade)
Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- EMPLOYMENT
04/2021 – pres.
Doctoral Research Fellow, CRC ‘Prominence in Language’, project A01, University of Cologne
02/2019 – 06/2021
Research assistant, Laboratory of Phonology and Phonetics, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany
03/2020 – 03/2021
Research assistant, Center for Cognitive Science, Department of Psycholinguistics and Language Development, University of Kaiserlautern, Germany
Membership
- International Phonetic Association (IPA)
- Cologne Center of Language Science (CCLC)
- Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
Publications
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Research Articles
Katsika, K., Lialiou M., Allen, M. E. (submitted). Bilingual children’s online processing of relative clauses: evidence from heritage Greek. Special issue on child bilingual in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Coretta, S., Casillas, J. V., [participant authors], & Roettger, T. B. (in press). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. In Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/q8t2k
Katsika, K., Lialiou, M., & Allen, S. E. M. (2022). The Influence of Case and Word Order in Child and Adult Processing of Relative Clauses in Greek. Languages, 7(3), 206. MDPI AG. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages7030206
Lialiou, M., Sotiropoulou, S., & Gafos, A.I. (2021). Spatiotemporal coordination patterns in word-medial stop-lateral and s-stop clusters of American English. Phonetica, 78(5-6),385-433, 000010151520212010. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2021-2010 -
Conference Proceedings
Ghaffarvand-Mokari, P., & Lialiou, M. (2022). Perceptual and acoustic similarity of Modern Greek and Standard Germanvowels: does cross-linguistic acoustic similarity predict perception of non-native vowels? In J. Levis & A. Guskaroska (eds.). Proceedings of the 12th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, Brock University, St. Catharines ON. https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13270
Lialiou, M., Albert, A., Vella, A., & Grice, M. (in press). Periodic energy mass on head and edge tones in Maltese wh-constructions. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation, University of Southern Denmark.
Ghaffarvand M. P., & Lialiou, M. (to appear). Does cross-linguistic acoustic similarity predict perception of non-native vowels? In Proceedings of the 12th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, Brock University, Canada. -
Manuscripts
Lialiou, M. (2020). Syllabic structure and temporal organization in /sC/ sequences (Master Thesis). Potsdam Universität, Potsdam, Germany. -
Talks and posters at international conferences and workshops
Lialiou, M., Grice, M., Röhr, T., C., & Schumacher, B. P. (2023). Brain indices for processing rising and falling pitch: An MMN study. Talk at the 5th international conference on Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, June 2-4, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Lialiou, M., Vella, A., & Grice, M. (2023). Prosodic prominence and tonal association in Maltese and Maltese English. Talk at the Speech Units Workshop, April 17-19, Zurich, Switzerland.
Lialiou, M., Grice, M., Röhr, T., C., Brilmeyer, I., & Schumacher, B. P. (2022). Are rises special in attention orienting? Some evidence from boundary tones in German. Poster at the 28th conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, September 7-9, York, UK.
Lialiou, M., Albert, A., Vella, A., & Grice, M. (2022). Prominence at edges? Some evidence from Maltese wh-questions. Talk at the 3rd International Conference on Prominence, June 2-3, Cologne, Germany. [abstract]
Albert, A., Lialiou, M., Sbranna, S., & Cangemi, F. (2022). Improved acoustic characterization of prosodic prominence using periodic energy mass. Poster at the 3rd International Conference on Prominence, June 2-3, Cologne, Germany. [abstract] [poster]
Lialiou, M., Albert, A., Vella, A., & Grice, M. (2021). Periodic energy mass on head and edge tones in Maltese wh-constructions. Poster at the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation, December 6-9, Sonderborg, Denmark.
Katsika, K., Lialiou, M., & Allen, S. (2021). Real-time processing of relative clauses in heritage speakers of Greek in Germany. Talk at Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning, September 16-17, Zurich. [abstract]
Katsika, K., Lialiou, M., & Allen, S. (2021). Bilingual processing of complex structures; evidence from heritage Greek. Talk at the Conference on Multilingualism (online conference), June 23-15, Konstanz, Germany. [abstract]
Katsika, K., Lialiou, M., & Allen, S. (2021). Online processing of relative clauses in monolingual and bilingual children: evidence from heritage Greek. Poster at the XV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, (online conference), June 22-25, Madrid, Spain.
Lialiou, M., & Ghaffarvand M. P. (2021). Does cross-linguistic acoustic similarity predict perception of non-native vowels? Poster at the 12th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language and Teaching Conference (online conference), June 18-19, Brock University, Canada. [abstract] [poster] [audio presentation]
Katsika, K., Lialiou, M., & Allen, S. (2021). Online relative clause processing in monolingual and successive bilingual children with Greek as a heritage language. Poster at the 13th Heritage Language (Virtual) Institute, National Heritage Language Resource Center (UCLA), June 7-10, California, Los Angeles, USA. [poster] [video presentation]
Lialiou, M., Sotiropoulou, S., & Gafos, A. I. (2020). Temporal Patterns in word-medial clusters of American English. Poster at the 17th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP 17), February 5-7, Warsaw, Poland. [abstract] [poster] -
Invited talks
Lialiou, M. (2021). Syllabic structure and temporal organization in word-internal /sC/ sequences. Invited talk at the University of Potsdam, Linguistics Department, Phonology and Phonetics work group (Phopho colloquium), March 29.
Lialiou, M. (2020). Spanish /sC/ sequences; articulatory data segmentation. Invited talk at the University of Potsdam, Linguistics Department, Phonology and Phonetics work group (Phopho colloquium), July 23.
Lialiou, M. (2020). Syllabic structure and temporal organization of /sC/ sequences: insights from Spanish. Invited talk at the University of Potsdam, Linguistics Department, Phonology and Phonetics work group (Phopho colloquium), July 2. -
Fellowships and awards
International Phonetic Association (IPA) Student Award for my poster “Periodic energy mass on head and edge tones in Maltese wh-constructions.” in the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Denmark, 2021
Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Programme for B.A. studies in Linguistics Department of Linguistics, Potsdam Universität, Germany, April – September 2016 -
Teaching
Semester courses
Summer term 2023 Laboratory Phonology – Acoustics, BA Seminar, IfL – Phonetik, University of Cologne (co-teaching with Janne Lorenzen, Alicia Janz)
Guest lectures
Winter term 2022/23 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology II, BA Seminar, IfL – Phonetik, University of Cologne
Winter term 2020/21 Topics in Phonology, BSc Seminar, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam
Mentoring and supervision
01/2023 – 03/2023 Co-supervision of Erasmus Traineeship with Martine Grice: Nadezda Pelageina, “Lexical prosody and prosody in interaction”.