RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in the psycholinguistics of bilingualism, specifically how the two languages of a bilingual individual interact and influence each other in the processing and production of (morpho)syntactic structures. For my PhD, I explore the psycholinguistic mechanisms driving language change in bilingual adults at the syntax-discourse interface. To investigate this, I employ syntactic priming, examining how bilingual speakers adapt and reshape their syntactic structures over time both in processing and in production. 

CURRICULUM VITAE  [click here for full CV]

EDUCATION

2022-current
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau

2020-2022
Praedoc scholarship in Linguistics, Humboldt University of Berlin

2017-2020
M.Sc. in Linguistics, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Potsdam

2013-2017
B.A. German studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

2015-2016
Erasmus studies (B.A.), Department of German as Foreign Language (DaF), Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2022-current
Doctoral researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau

2019-2020
Research assistant, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin 

PUBLICATIONS  [click here for full list of publications]

Karkaletsou, F., Kholodova, A. & Allen, S. E. M. (2024). Exploring bilingual adaptation to structural innovations: Evidence from Canadian French. Languages, 9(12), 375. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9120375 

Karkaletsou, F. & Alexiadou, A. (2023). Synthetic-Analytic variation in the Formation of Greek Comparatives and Relative Superlatives. Journal of Greek Linguistics,23(2), 195. https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02302003

Alexiadou, A., Rizou, V. & Karkaletsou, F. (2023). Agreement asymmetries with adjectives in Heritage Greek. Languages, 8(2), 139. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020139 

Alexiadou, A., Rizou, V. & Karkaletsou F. (2022). A plural indefinite article in Heritage Greek: the role of register. Languages, 7(2), 115. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020115 

Alexiadou, A., Rizou, V., Tsokanos, N. & Karkaletsou, F. (2020). Gender agreement mismatches in Heritage Greek. Languages, 6(1), 3.

https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010003 

RECENT PRESENTATIONS 

Karkaletsou, F., Jacob, G. & Allen, S. E. M. (2024, September). Cross-linguistic structural priming of ditransitive innovations in Canadian French-English bilinguals. Poster at 30^th Conference on Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), University of Edinburgh, UK.

Amin, F., Karkaletsou, F., Jacob, G. & Allen, S. E. M. (2024, May). Cross-Linguistic Priming of Ungrammatical Structures: A Study on French-English Bilinguals. Talk at Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF 2024), Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.  

Çetin, K.N., Karkaletsou, F., Jacob, G. & Allen, S. E. M. (2024, May). Examining cross-linguistic ungrammatical priming of reciprocal structures: The impact of dominant language. Talk at Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF 2024), Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.  

Karkaletsou, F., Jacob, G, & Allen, S. E. M. (2024, May). Cross-linguistic ungrammatical priming in Canadian French-English bilinguals: Evidence from a self-paced reading task. Poster at 5^th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2024), Swansea University, UK. 

Karkaletsou, F., Kholodova, A. & Allen, S. E. M. (2023, August). Exploring bilingual adaptation to syntactic innovations: Evidence from Canadian French. Poster at Summer School of Linguistics(SSoL 2023), University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czechia. 

Karkaletsou, F., Kholodova, A. & Allen, S. E. M. (2023, May). Exploring cross-linguistic influence and adaptation to innovations: A rating study with bilinguals in Canada. Poster at Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF 2023), Ghent University, Belgium.  

TEACHING

• Lab Rotation in Linguistics (Winter semester 2024-2025)
• Lab Rotation in Linguistics (Winter semester 2023-2024)
• Lab Rotation in Linguistics (Winter semester 2022-2023)

SCHOLARSHIPS

2020-2022
SFB scholarship for early-stage researchers (Research Unit: CRC 1412), Humboldt University of Berlin

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 

• Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP 2024) (2024, September). Advanced frequentist stream. University of Potsdam, Germany.  
• Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP 2023) (2023, September). Advanced Bayesian stream. University of Potsdam, Germany.  
• Summer School of Linguistics (SSoL 2023) (2023, August). University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czechia. 

PROGRAMMING AND STATISTICAL SKILLS

• R / RStudio: Advanced user; Data preprocessing and visualization, Inferential statistics (frequentist, Bayesian), Language Models (corpus data)
• Julia: Basic knowledge; Data preprocessing and visualization, Inferential statistics (frequentist)
• Stan (C++ based): Basic knowledge; Inferential statistics (Bayesian)
• Javascript: Basic knowledge; Programming of experiments in online experiment builders (e.g., Gorilla, IbexFarm, jsPsych)
• Python: Basic knowledge