Lesbos

General description
The Electronic Linguistic Atlas of Lesbos (EDAL) is the first electronic atlas οf a Modern Greek dialect. Its development has been carried out under the direction of Professor Angela Ralli, within the framework of the research program ‘Documentating, studying and mapping the dialect of Lesbos’, funded by the General Secretariat for the Aegean and Island Policy , during the period 2010-2015. Substantial part of the research and the digitization were conducted at the Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects of the University of Patras, by the following research team:

The research was completed through the Ph.D. dissertation ‘Mapping the linguistic variety of Lesbos’ by Vasileia Alexelli, at the Department of Philology of the University of Patras, under the supervision of Professor Angela Ralli. The technical support of the electronic platform is provided by Giannis Georgiadis (system administrator). The research work was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) under the HFRI PhD Fellowship grant (Fellowship Number: 16)