Jerid Francom’s research focuses on the use of large-scale language archives (corpora) from a variety of sources (news, social media, and other internet sources) to better understand the linguistic and cultural similarities and differences between language varieties for both scholarly and pedagogical projects.
He has published on topics including the development, annotation, and evaluation of linguistic corpora and analyzed corpora through corpus, psycholinguistic, and computational methodologies. He also has experience working with and teaching statistical programming with R.
2009 | PhD Linguistics & Cognitive Science
University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ
2004 | MA Hispanic Linguistics
University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ
1998 | BA History
University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ
Associate Professor
Department of Spanish, Wake Forest University
2015-present
Assistant Professor
Department of Romance Languages, Wake Forest University
2009-2015
Recent courses:
- Spanish 111: Elementary Spanish I
- Spanish 212: Exploring the Hispanic World
- Spanish 309: Spanish Grammar and Composition
- Spanish 322: Spanish Pronunciation and Dialect Variation
- Linguistics 150: Intro to Linguistics
- Linguistics 330: Intro to Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition
- Linguistics 380/680: Quantitative Text Analysis
Recent publications:
- Francom, J. (2025). An Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics: Reproducible Research Using R. Routledge.
- Francom, J. (2022). Corpus Studies of Syntax. In G. Goodall (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax (pp. 687–713). Cambridge University Press.
Current projects:
qtkit: An R package for quantitative text analysis. CRAN, R-Universe, GitHub
Email: francojc@wfu.edu
Phone: +1-336-758-4868
Mail: 323 Greene Hall | Wake Forest University | Winston-Salem, NC, 27103
