Mulugeta Tsegaye

Mulugeta Tsegaye is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Addis Ababa University (AAU). He is also a chairperson of the Department. Mulugeta obtained his B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature from AAU in 2003. After graduating from AAU with an M.A. in Linguistics (Sociolinguistics Track) in 2008, he took up an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to attend a European Master's Program at the universities of Groningen, Eastern Finland and Potsdam, and graduated with an MSc in Clinical Linguistics in 2010. In 2011, he was employed as a PhD researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and received his PhD in Psycholinguistics in 2017. In his PhD dissertation, he investigated the psychological reality of gender and number during speech production in Konso, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, which has an intriguing property of grammatical categories. In the dissertation, he extended the psycholinguistic research on gender and number beyond Indo-European languages and introduced field-based psycholinguistic approaches to studying African languages.

Mulugeta is interested in the interdisciplinary fields of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, including speech-language processing and disorders, translation equivalence and multimodal discourse analysis.