Dr Fraibet Aveledo

-
+44 (0) 118 378 8139
-
Lecturer in Child Language Development and Bilingualism
Departmental Director of Teaching and Learning
Director of BA Programme in English Language and Linguistics
Library Liaison
Areas of interest
Fraibet's main research interests are language development, second language acquisition, and bilingualism, especially the acquisition of grammar and semantics and its relation with non-linguistic cognition in children and adults. Fraibet is particularly interested in researching the effect of language on cognition, through the study of motion event construal in monolingual and bilingual speakers of languages such as English, Spanish, and Mandarin.
She is additionally interested in the effect of bilingualism on syntactic structures and the cross-linguistic influence of languages in the bilingual speaker. Finally, Fraibet also studies the structure of meaning, and how it is made visible through language within the constraints of mind/brain functioning.
Particularly, she is focusing on the study of the acquisition of the semantic distinction between the copula ser/estar in Spanish (verb "to be") which is currently in variation in the Spanish world.
Teaching
Fraibet teaches the following modules:
- LS2LAM: Language and the Mind
- LS3DCL/LMDCL: Child Language Development
- LS3IB/LSMIB: Issues in Bilingualism
Background
Academic qualifications
- PhD Linguistics (Newcastle University)
- MA in Language Acquisition (Essex University)
- MPhil in Linguistics (Central University of Venezuela)
- BA in Letters (Catholic "Andrés Bello" University).
Publications
-
Nair, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6631-0587 , Khamis, R. , Ali, S. , Aveledo, F. , Biedermann, B. , Blake, O. , Rosa Brea, M. , Cheng, L. , Sheen Chiou, H. , Cruz, D. , Cushing, I. , de Diego-Lázaro, B. , Eads, A. , El Amin, M. , Fabiano-Smith, L. , Morrison Fagbemi, A. , Brown Gandhi, A. , Saldívar García, E. , Hackett, A. , Henner, J. , Hsieh, L. , Huang, T. , Hussain, F. , Hyter, Y. , Imperial Rowland, A. , Ito, N. , Joseph, H. , Kašćelan, D. , Licata, G. , Lin, C. , MacLeod, A. , Malik, M. , Robles Manalili, M. , Matias, F. , McMillen, S. , Modayil, M. , Mohamed, N. , Mollaei, F.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2916-9750 , Monda, D. , Moya-Galé, G. , Munson, B. , Nkomo, C. , Padia, L. , Perez, C. , Privette, C. , Risueño, P. , Rodgers, L. , Rodríguez-Guerra, M. , Serratrice, L.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5141-6186 , Shannon, D. , Soto-Boykin, X. , Tan, G. , Sun, L. , Wylie, K. , Yu, B. , Yu, V. , Zisk, A. (2023) Accent modification as a raciolinguistic ideology: a commentary in response to Burda et al. (2022). Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability , 1 (1). pp. 105-112. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.48516/jcscd_2023vol1iss1.21
-
Treffers-Daller, J.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6575-6736 and Aveledo, F. (2023) Approaching motion in a second language: how bilinguals restructure motion event expressions inside and outside the classroom. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching , 61 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN: 1613-4141 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iral-2023-0006
- Aveledo, F. and Athanasopoulos, P. (2023) Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in motion event conceptualisation in bilingual speakers of Spanish and English. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching , 61 (1). pp. 13-36. ISSN: 1613-4141 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iral-2022-0179
- Aveledo, F. , Sanchez-Alonso, S. , Piñango, M. (2022) Contextual dependency and overuse of estar in the acquisition of Spanish copula verbs. First Language , 42 (5). pp. 649-669. ISSN: 0142-7237 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01427237221100913
-
Aveledo, F.
,
Higueras, Y.
,
Marinis, T.
,
Bose, A.
,
Pliatsikas, C.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7093-1773 , Meldaña-Rivera, A. , Martínez-Ginés, M. , García-Domínguez, J. , Lozano-Ros, A. , Cuello, J. , Goicochea-Briceño, H. (2021) Multiple sclerosis and bilingualism: some initial findings. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism , 11 (4). pp. 551-577. ISSN: 1879-9272 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lab.18037.ave
- Aveledo, F. and Athanasopoulos, P. (2016) Second language influence on first language motion event encoding and categorization in Spanish-speaking children learning L2 English. International Journal of Bilingualism , 20 (4). pp. 403-420. ISSN: 1756-6878 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006915609235
- Athanasopoulos, P. and Aveledo, F. (2012) Linguistic relativity and bilingualism. In: Altarriba, J. and Isurin, L. , (eds.) Memory, language, and bilingualism: theoretical and applied approaches. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 236-255. ISBN: 9781107008908
- Aveledo, F. and Gonzalez, L. (2009) La adquisición de las cláusulas relativas en niños hispanohablantes: un proceso dependiente de múltiples factores. Lingua Americana , 23 pp. 9-36. ISSN: 1316-6689
- Aveledo, F. and Martins, I. (2009) La adquisición de las cláusulas interrogativas parciales en el Español infantil: ¿Reglas innatas o fórmulas aprendidas?. Boletin de Linguistica , 21 (31). pp. 5-35. ISSN: 0798-9709
- Marin, J. , Aveledo, F. , Paganq, A. , Cuadro, A. (2008) "¿Por qué es más complicado distinguir entre berenjena y berengena que entre escabeche y escaveche?". pp. 875-881.
- Aveledo, F. (2006) El procesamiento de verbos regulares e irregulares en el español infantil: mecanismo dual vs conexionismo. Boletin de Linguistica , 18 (26). pp. 5-32. ISSN: 0798-9709
- Clahsen, H. , Aveledo, F. , Roca, I. (2002) The development of regular and irregular verb inflection in Spanish child language. Journal of Child Language , 29 (3). pp. 591-622. ISSN: 0305-0009 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000902005172