Jerid Francom, Ph.D. Linguistics, Cognitive Science

Assistant Professor of Spanish & Linguistics, Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Research field: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics
Syntax, semantics, non-canonical word-order, information structure, discourse movement, the nature of grammaticality, linguistic methodology, experimental syntax, psycholinguistics, language processing, syntactic persistence, implicit learning

Publications

Journal Article (1)
- Jerid Francom (2003) La cláusula reducida y el libre orden de palabras en español. In Divergencias: revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios 1 (1).
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Book Section (1)
- Jerid Francom (2011) Wh-movement: interrogatives, exclamatives and relatives. In The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics.
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Conference Proceedings (6)
- Mans Hulden, Jerid Francom (2012) Boosting Statistical Tagger Accuracy with Simple Rule-Based Grammars, 2114-2117. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12).
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- Jerid Francom, Amy LaCross, Adam Ussishkin (2010) How specialized are specialized corpora? Behavioral evaluation of corpus representativeness for Maltese. In Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC `10).
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- J Francom, A Ussishkin, D Woudstra (2009) Creating a Web-based Lexical Corpus and Information-extraction Tools for the Semitic Language Maltese, 9-16. In Proceedings of the SALTMIL 2009 workshop on Information Retrieval and Information Extraction for Less Resourced Languages..
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- Jerid Francom (2008) Is Lexical Access Mediated by the Syllabic and/or CV Structure of Words? Exploring Transposed-Letter Priming Effects. In UW Working Papers in Linguistics.
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- Jerid Francom, Mans Hulden (2008) Parallel Multi-Theory Annotations of Syntactic Structure. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08).
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- Jerid Francom (2003) Variación estilística y dialecto: un estudio de acomodación de lenguaje en el suroeste de Arizona. In Annual Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Hispanic Symoposium.
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Thesis (1)
- Jerid Francom (2009) Experimental Syntax: exploring the effect of repeated exposure to anomalous syntactic structure --evidence from rating and reading tasks.
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Awards and Grants

Aug 2011

NEH Digital Humanities Start-up, "ACTIV ES: a novel Spanish language corpus for linguistic and cultu
May 2011

Office of the Provost’s Summer Grants for Exploration of Educational Technology, Wake Forest Univers
May 2011

Archie Fund for the Arts and the Humanities Grant, Wake Forest University, "SpanMorph and SpanSyn: a
May 2010

Office of the Provost’s Summer Grants for Exploration of Educational Technology, Wake Forest Univers
Apr 2003

TINKER grant, "The Role of Community in Language Maintenance and Shift in Barcelona, Spain"
Jul 2002

FLAS Recipient. Course in Fortaleza, Brazil. Course— Advanced Portuguese Universidade Federal de Cea

Biographical Information

Jerid Francom is an assistant professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in the United States. He received his PhD From the University of Arizona. His research interests include psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and formal syntax. He has published articles on treebank and corpus design and measures of corpus representativeness through psycholinguistic measures. He teaches both upper-division undergraduate courses for the Spanish major/minor and core courses for the linguistics minor.

CV

Professional Experience

2009 - Present

Assistant Professor of Spanish & Linguistics at Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Classes taught:
Language Use and Technology
Spanish Grammar and Composition
Introduction to Linguistics

Aug 2001 - Dec 2008

Graduate Associate Teacher at The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Classes taught:
Hispanic Linguistics
Advanced Spanish Composition
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
Language and society

Education

Aug 2004 - Aug 2009

The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, United States
Ph.D. Linguistics, Cognitive Science

Aug 2001 - May 2004

The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, United States
M.A. Hispanic Linguistics

Aug 1998 - Sep 1998

University of Cambridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)

Aug 1996 - Aug 1998

The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, United States
BA History