Dr. Jerid Francom

Office: Greene 545
Phone: (336) 758-4868
email: francojc@wfu.edu
www: http://www.wfu.edu/~francojc

Education

Ph.D. Linguistics, U of Arizona, 2009
M.A. Hispanic Linguistics, U of Arizona, 2004
CELTA, Cambridge University, 1998
B.A. History, U of Arizona, 1998

Research Interests

Syntax
Psycholinguistics
Linguistic methodology and resources

Courses taught

Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition
Language and Society (at U of Arizona)
Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (at U of Arizona)
Phonetics and Phonology of Spanish (at U of Arizona)

Recent publications

Francom, J., Woudstra, D. and Ussishkin, A. (2009). Creating a Web-based Lexical Corpus and Information-extraction Tools for the Semitic Language Maltese. Proceedings of SALTMIL Workshop on Information Retrieval and Information Extraction for Less Resourced Languages, San Sebastian, Spain.

Francom, J. and Hulden, M. (2008). Parallel multi-theory annotation of syntactic structure. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco.

Francom, J. (2008). Is Lexical Access Mediated by the Syllabic and/or CV Structure of Words? Exploring Transposed-Letter Priming Effects. UW Working Papers in Linguistics, Seattle, Washington.