Dr Fraibet Aveledo

Email:
f.aveledo@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 8139
Job title:
Lecturer in Child Language Development and Bilingualism

Responsibilities:

Departmental Director of Academic Tutoring

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

Read Fraibet's research story

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

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 pp 0. 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 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