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Dimitris Papazachariou is a Professor in the Department of Philology at the University of Patras since 2022, specializing in Linguistics with focus on Dialectology and Phonetics. He directs the Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects (since 2020) and the Laboratory of Greek Language and Culture (since 2022).
His educational background includes:
- Greek Philology degree from University of Crete
- M.A. in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from University of Essex
- Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of Essex
Research centers on phonological structure of Modern Greek dialects, linguistic mechanisms of variety/change, and sociolinguistic parameters in Greek language teaching. Recent expansions include sign language phonology and prosody as indicators of psychological conditions. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical pedagogy.
Publications demonstrate consistent focus on Greek dialectology and phonology, with growing emphasis on corpus linguistics and metapragmatic phenomena in geographical language variation across recent works.
He has supervised fifteen doctoral theses alongside dozens of postgraduate/undergraduate theses. Research program involvement includes thirteen national/international projects as member and five as scientific director.
Laboratory leadership supports his digital dialect database initiative and development of teaching resources for Greek language educators.
