Research

Dissertation

Experimental Syntax: exploring the effect of repeated exposure to anomalous syntactic structure –evidence from rating and reading tasks

Publications

• Hulden, M. & Francom, J. (2012). Boosting statistical tagger accuracy with simple rule-based grammars. In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
• Francom, J. (2012). Wh-movement: interrogatives, exclamatives and relatives. In I. Hualde, A. Olarrea, E. O’Rourke (eds.), The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics. Wiley Blackwell.
• Francom, J., LaCross, A., and Ussishkin, A. (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 LREC10, Valletta, Malta. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
• Francom, J., Woudstra, D. and Ussishkin, A. (2009) Creating a Web-based Lexical Corpus and Information-extraction Tools for the Semitic Language Maltese. Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, San Sebastian, Spain.
• Francom, J. and Hulden, M. (2008). Parallel multi-theory annotations of syntactic structure. In (ELRA), E.L.R.A., editor, Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08), Marrakech, Morocco.
• Francom, J. (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.
• Francom, J. (2003b). Variación estilìstica y dialecto: un estudio de acomodación de lenguaje en el suroeste de Arizona. In Annual Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Hispanic Symoposium, Tucson, Arizona. University of Arizona Press.
• Francom, J. (2003a). La cláusula reducida y el libre orden de palabras en español. Divergencias: revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios, 1.

Presentations

• 2013. ‘Using the ACTIV-ES corpus to enhance Spanish language learning.‘ American Association for Corpus Linguistics. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
  2012. ‘Identifying ‘core’ and ‘specialized’ language forms across genres for more effective composition instruction.’ Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference 62. Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
• 2012. ‘The ACTIV-ES corpus: Moving towards cross-dialectal, ecologically validated language samples, and a more inclusive language science.’ Arizona Linguistics Circle 6. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
• 2011. ‘Converging methodologies:assessing corpus representativeness through psycholinguistic measures‘ American Association for Corpus Linguistics. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
• 2011. ‘Are bilinguals two monolinguals? Evidence from acceptability ratings for Spanish-English bilinguals.‘ First meeting of Spanish Linguistics in North
  Carolina. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
• 2011. ‘Predicting word frequency effects from corpora: an investigation of corpus size and sampling methods‘ Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. Jan 9, 2011
• 2010. ‘SpanMorph: an open-source morphological analyzer for Spanish‘ Universidad de Sonora, Eleventh Annual Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste. Hermosillo, Mexico. Nov 18, 2010
• 2009. ‘Electronic Corpora for Two Semitic Languages‘ American Association for Corpus Linguistics. University of Alberta – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada October 9 – 11, 2009
• 2009. ‘Is Syntactic Facilitation Contingent on Licit Syntactic Structure?‘ Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• 2008. ‘Is Syntactic Satiation Contingent on Judgment-based Exposure?‘ Universidad de Sonora, Tenth Annual Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste. Hermosillo, Mexico. Nov 2008
• 2008. ‘Lexical & Syntactic Distributional Properties of Relatives in a Large Corpus‘ University of Arizona, Second Annual Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle
• 2008. ‘Towards a Description of the Syntactic Satiation Effect.‘ University of Arizona, Linguistics Department Student Showcase.
• 2006. ‘Left and Right Dislocation Asymmetries in Spanish‘ Romance Linguistics Roundtable, Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 2004. ‘Innate or Learned?‘ Fourteenth Annual Hispanic Symposium, University of Arizona.
• 2003. ‘The Role of Community in Language Maintenance and Shift in Barcelona, Spain‘ Tinker Grant Report, University of Arizona

Posters

• 2012. ‘Boosting statistical tagger accuracy with simple rule-based grammars.‘ Eighth Annual Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
• 2010 ‘How specialized are specialized corpora? 
Behavioral evaluation of corpus representativeness for Maltese.‘ Seventh Annual Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Valletta, Malta. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
• 2008 ‘Parallel multi-theory annotation of syntactic structure.’ Sixth Annual Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Talks

• 2012. `Unas herramientas para la psicolingüística.‘ Lab talk at ELEBILAB, Vitoria, Spain. March 14, 2012.