Tekabe Feleke

Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor in General Linguistics at Department of Linguistics and Philology

E-mail:
tekabe.feleke@lingfil.uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H
Postal address:
Box 527
751 20 UPPSALA

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Short presentation

I am a linguist specializing in psycholinguistics and language variation. My primary research interests include language acquisition, cross-linguistic influence in L2 and L3 acquisition, bilingualism, and multilingualism. My additional research interests include language variation and change, particularly their implications for language acquisition and processing. My research focuses primarily on Ethiopian Cushitic and Semitic languages, and on the speakers of these languages.

Keywords

  • Language acquisition
  • Language processing
  • cross-linguistic influence
  • bilingualism
  • language variation
  • Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic languages

Biography

I hold a BA in Teaching English from Mekelle University, Ethiopia; an MA in Linguistics from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; a Research Master’s degree in Language and Cognition from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands; and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Verona, Italy. I also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway for more than three years.

Research

Main Publications

  1. Feleke, TL. & Lohndal, T. (2024). The role of differential cross-linguistic influences and other constituents in predictive L2 gender processing. Glossa Psycholinguistics,3(1), 1—42. DOI: 10.5070/G60111325
  2. Feleke, TL. (2024). Dialect recognition via lexical processing: Is it a viable litmus test?. Languages, 9(6), 1—26. DOI: 10.3390/languages9060186
  3. Feleke, TL. (2024). Dialect separation and cross-dialectal influences: A study on grammatical gender of Oromo. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, 64(3), 1—37. DOI: 10.1515/ling-2022-0119
  4. Feleke, TL. & Lohndal, T. (2023). Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus-based study. Studia Linguistica: Journal of General Linguistics, 77(3), 453—495. DOI: 10.1111/stul.12213
  5. Feleke, TL. (2021). Ethiosemitic languages: Classifications and classification determinants. Ampersand, 8(11), 1—15. DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2021.100074
  6. Feleke, TL., Gooskens, C. & Rabanus, S. (2020). Mapping the dimensions of linguistic distance: A study on South Ethiosemitic languages. Lingua, 243(15), 1—31. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102893
Tekabe Feleke