Assoc. Professor Enkeleida Kapia

Publications

Selected Books

• Kapia, E. (2019). Psycholinguistics: major theories and data from Albanian. Academy Albanian Studies. Institute of Linguistics. Center for Albanian Studies, Tirana.
• Kapia, E. (2016). Studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Institute of Linguistics. Center for Albanian Studies, Tirana.
• Kapia, E. (2011). The Role of Syntax and Pragmatics in the Structure and Acquisition of Albanian. UMI Publishing. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Selected Books with Co-Authors and Edited Volumes

• Kapia, E., Omari, A., Lama, A., Kananaj, A. (2019/2018). Variacioni sintaksor në dialektet dhe të folmet e shqipes. Academy Albanian Studies. Institute of Linguistics. Center for Albanian Studies, Tirana.

Selected Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals, in Edited Volumes, etc.

• Kapia, E., Harrington, J., Kleber, F. (under review). An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis of Albanian Prosody. In: Jun, S. A. & Khan, S. (eds.): Prosodic Typology III. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Coretta, S., Riverin-Coutlée, J., Kapia, E., Nichols, S. (under review). IPA Illustration of Albanian Northern Tosk.
• De Leeuw, E., Kapia, E. (under review). Permanency of L1 Attrition of Speech Perception and Production in Returning Albanian-English bilinguals. Special Issue "Language contact and speaker accommodation" in Language and Speech.
• Kapia, E., Kleber, F., Gubian, M., Harrington, J. (manuscript in preparation). Prosodic Focus in Albanian.
• Riverin-Coutlée, J., Cunha, C., Kapia, E., Harrington, J. (2021). Dialect features in heterogeneous and homogeneous Gheg speaking communities. Proceedings of Interspeech 2021. Brno, Czech Republic. (View.pdf, 623 KB)
• Kapia, E., Kleber, F., Harrington, J. (2020). An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis of Rising Contours in Standard Albanian. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020. Tokyo, Japan, pp. 171-175. (View.pdf, 543 KB)
• Kapia, E. (2020). Sistemi intonacionor dhe prozodia e shqipes: të dhënat e para nga shqipja e të rriturve (Intonational system and prosody of Albanian: preliminary results from adult Albanian). Studime Filologjike. Academia e Studimeve Albanologjike, Instituti i Gjuhësisë, Tiranë.
• Kapia, E., Brugos, A. (2019). Perception of prosodic correlates of Topic and Focus in Albanian. Proceedings of Intonational Phonology of Typologically Rare or Understudied Languages Workshop, ICPhS. Melbourne, Australia.

Selected Presentations, Invited Talks, etc.

• Kapia, E. (2021). Methods in dialectological studies: të dhëna të reja sociolinguistike nga Atlasi i Sintaksës Dialektore. Kuvendi Ndërkombëtar i Studimeve Albanologjike. Akademia e Studimeve Albanologjike. Tiranë, Shqipëri, 25-27 Nëntor.
• Kapia, E. (2021). Studim mikro-diakronik i sistemit intonacionor të shqipes. Ditët e Albanologjisë 2021. Akademia e Studimeve Albanologjike. Dhjetor. Tiranë, Shqipëri.
• Brugos, A., Kapia, E. (2021). Prosodic and non-prosodic cues to prominence and boundaries: evidence from an RPT study in Albanian. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation. Sonderborg, Denmark, December 6-9. (View.pdf, 421 KB)
• Nichols, S., Riverin-Coutlée, J., Coretta, S., Kapia, E. (2021). On the acoustics and articulation of post-alveolar affricates in Northern Tosk Albanian. Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2021 (LAGB). Hosted online, September 6-9. (View.pdf, 4 MB)
• Nichols, S., Kapia, E., Riverin-Coutlée, J., Coretta, S. (2021). Towards a description of the rhotic sounds of Northern Tosk Albanian. R-atics 7. Lausanne, Switzerland, November 18-19. (View.pdf, 1.6 MB)
• Franke, R., Cunha, C., Riverin-Coutlée, J., Kapia, E., Harrington, J. (2021). How revealing are vowels for the sex of children? A perception and production study. Tagung zur Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P 17). Frankfurt, Germany, September 29-30. (View.pdf, 350 KB)
• Riverin-Coutlée, J., Cunha, C., Kapia, E., Harrington, J. (2021). Dialect in the City: Asymmetrical retention of traditional features of Gheg Albanian. 4th Phonetics and Phonology Europe (PaPE), Barcelona, Spain, June 21-23. (View.pdf, 269 KB)
• Kapia, E., Riverin-Coutlée, J., Cunha, C., Harrington, J. (2020). Acquisition of morphologically and phonologically conditioned vowel length in Albanian. 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, USA, November 5. (View.pdf, 195 KB)
• Cunha, C., Riverin-Coutlée, J., Kapia, E., Harrington, J. (2020). Is Albanian losing its vowel length contrast? Evidence from children and adults. Tagung zur Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P 16). Trier, Germany, September 11. (View.pdf, 146 KB)
• Kapia, E. (2019). The intertwining of syntax and prosody in child and adult Albanian: evidence from monolinguals and bilinguals. Seminar in Phonetics and Phonology: Speech Variation, Language Change, and Computational Modeling. Venice, Italy, May 13-17. (View.pdf, 1.8 MB)
• Kapia, E. (2019). Syntax and prosody in the realization of information structure in L2 Albanian. International Workshop on the L1 and L2 Acquisition of Information Structure. Leuven, Belgium, April 25-26. (View.pdf, 575 KB)
• Mueller, D., Kapia, E. (2019). Children’s perception of the Albanian dark-clear lateral contrast. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia, August 4-10. (View.pdf, 774 KB)
• Leeuw, E., Kapia, E. (2019). Permanency of L1 Attrition of Speech Perception and Production in Returning Albanian-English bilinguals. International Symposium on Bilingualism 12 (ISB12). Alberta, Canada, June 23-28.
• Kapia, E. (2019). Sfidat e albanologjisë sot. Studimet gjuhësore e letrare shqipe në ASA, diskutim për probleme e hapësira të reja. Akademia e Studimeve Albanologjike, Instituti i Gjuhësisë, April 23.