| Full Name |
Derib Ado Jekale |
| Academic Rank/Status |
Assistant Professor |
| Working for AAU since |
2006 |
| Administrative positions held if any/ past and present |
Chair of the Language Technology Programme Unit (December 2011-May 2012)Chair of the Department of Linguistics (may 2012-October 2015
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| Education attended |
- PhD in Experimental Phonetics, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2011)
- Higher Diploma for Teacher Educators, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia (2005)
- A in Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia(2004)
- Ed. in English, Kotebe College of Teacher Education, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1999)
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| Awards &recognitions |
- 2013-16. PI, Noise Pollution in Addis Ababa, Linguistics, Social and Architectural Issues, funded by the Office of Vice president for Research and Technology Transfer
- 2016-2018. Co-PI, Investigation of Local Language Resources for information and Predictive systems, funded by FDRE Ministry of Science and Technology
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| Memberships of International bodies |
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| Publicity: Journals, editorial roles, initiatives etc. |
Managing Editor, Ethiopian Journal of Languages and Literature |
| Research interest/ not more than hundred words |
Mainly working on speech production and perception, acoustics, phonology, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, language technology but also interested in language documentation and discourse analysis
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| Publications on reputable journals |
- Derib Ado . 2016. Metaphors of time in Amharic. In Meyer, R. and Edzard, L. 2016. Time in the Languages of the Horn of Africa. 103-116.Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
- Feda Negesseand Derib Ado. 2016. Visual recognition of graphic variants of Amharic letters: psycholinguistic experiment. Oslo Studies in Language. 8,1: 173-200 available at https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/osla/article/view/4424
- Derib Ado Jekale. 2009. An Acoustic study of the four types of reading in Geez. A Paper presented at the 17thInternational Conference of Ethiopian Studies, 2-5 November, 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- Derib Ado Jekale. 2007. Love is our enemy: opponent metaphors in Amharic. A paper presented at the 19thILS Annual Conference. Available at http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/bitstream/123456789/1349/1/Derib%20Ado.pdf
- Getachew Anteneh andDerib Ado. 2006. Language policy in Ethiopia: history and current trends.Ethiopian Journal of Education and Science. 2, 1: 37-61 (Also presented at the 18th Annual ILS Conference. Available at ethiopia-ed.net/images/257055575.doc
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| Community Services such as board membership etc. |
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| Address |
Campus: MainBuilding: NCR
Floor number: 3
Office no.: 337
Office telephone: +215-111-239755
Mobile: +51-922-867359
University email ID: derib.ado@aau.edu.et
Alternative email ID: derib.ado@gmail.com |
