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1 K AT H RY N F R A N I C H personal information kfranich@uchicago.edu website home.uchicago.edu/ kfranich/ snail mail 1115 E. 58th Street, Rosnwald Hall, Room 224 Chicago, IL phone +1 (617) research interests Phonetics, phonology, prosody, speech production and perception, language processing, tone, rhythm, Bantu linguistics, language variation and change, fieldwork, language documentation employment University of Chicago Chicago, IL September 2017-Present Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Humanities education University of Chicago Chicago, IL September 2011-September 2017 PhD in Linguistics Dissertation: The Interaction of Prominence, Rhythm, and Tone in Med0mba Committee Chair: Prof. Alan Yu Boston University Boston, MA September 2008-May 2011 MA in Applied Linguistics Thesis: Tone Docking and Spreading in the Medumba Verbal Complex Advisors: Prof. Catherine O Connor & Prof. Jonathan Barnes Bates College Lewiston, ME September 2001-May 2005 BA in Psychology Thesis: Language Environments of Somali High School Students in Lewiston, ME Advisor: Prof. Georgia Nigro Universidad de Salamanca Salamanca, Spain Spring semester abroad, 2004 SIT at La Universidad de Santa Maria Valparaíso, Chile Fall semester abroad, 2003 summer programs LSA Institute Berkeley, CA July-August L Int l Summer School on Language Documentation and Description University of Leiden, Netherlands July 2010 Publications Journal Articles Franich, K. In prep. Prominence asymmetries and syncopated rhythm in Bantu. Yu, A., Kramer, A., & Franich, K. Submitted. Co-variation between perceptual cue weights within and across contrasts. Franich, K. To appear. Tonal and morphophonological effects on the location of perceptual centers (p-centers): Evidence from a Bantu language. Journal of Phonetics. 1

2 Publications Franich, K Internal and contextual cues to tone perception in Med0mba. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 140(1), Conference Proceedings Franich, K. To appear. Evidence for metrical prominence asymmetries in Med0mba. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting in Phonology (AMP) 2017, New York, NY. Franich, K Perception of Tonal Contours in Med0mba. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages. Franich, K The effect of cognitive load on tonal coarticulation. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Aparicio, H. T., Franich, K. & Xiang, M The syntax of ellipsis resolution: Eye-tracking evidence from ϕ-feature mismatches. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, 1, Franich, K Contour tones and prosodic structure in Medumba. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, ed. Herman Lueng et al., Goldman, N., Orman, W., Paquette, E., Franich, K., Hawkes, R., Ngabeu, A. & O Connor, C Interspeaker variation in noun class realization in Medumba, a Grassfields Language. Selected Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Franich, K., O Connor, C. & Barnes, J Tonal merger in Medumba (Bamileke) nouns. Selected proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, ed. Michael R. Marlo et al. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Volumes Edited Aparicio, H., Flynn, G., Franich, K., Pietraszko, J., & Vardomskaya, T. Forthcoming. Proceedings of the 49th Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Franich, K., Keil, L., & Iserman, K. (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Presentations Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations Franich, K Prominence in speech cycling: Evidence from an African tone language. Presentation at AMLaP16, Bilbao, Spain. Franich, K Cues to tone perception in Med0mba. Presentation at 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Berkeley, CA. Franich, K The prosodic status of lexically contoured words in Med0mba. Presentation at 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Eugene, OR. Yu, A., Chen, D., Franich, K., Halberstam, Y., Phillips, J. & Pillion, B The peril of sounding manly: A look at vocal characteristics of lawyers before the United States Supreme Court. Presentation at 89th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Portland, OR. Franich, K., Aparicio, H. & Xiang, M Inflectional ϕ-feature mismatches under ellipsis: An eye-tracking study. Presentation at the 15th annual meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society, UT Austin. 2

3 Presentations Yu, A., Chen, D., Franich, K., Halberstam, Y., Phillips, J., Pillion, B., Hao, Y. & Yin, Z The peril of sounding manly: A look at vocal characteristics of lawyers before the United States Supreme Court. Presentation at LabPhon 14, Tokyo, Japan. Franich, K Contour tones, vowel length, and syllable weight in Medumba. Presentation at the 2014 CUNY Phonology Forum. Franich, K The Interaction of vowel length and tone in Medumba. Presentation at the 88th Annual Meeting of the LSA (poster). Franich, K Foot structure in Medumba. Presentation at the African Linguistics Workshop, LSA Institute. Franich, K Focus and regressive tone spreading in Medumba. Presentation at the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Georgetown Orman, W., Franich, K., Hawkes, R., Goldman, N., Ngabeu, A. & O Connor, C Variation in noun class realization in Medumba, a Grassfields language. Presentation at the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Georgetown Franich, K., O Connor, C. & Barnes, J Tonal merger in Medumba (Bamileke) nouns. Presentation at the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Maryland. Franich, K., O Connor, C. & Barnes, J Tone change and dialect formation in Medumba. Presentation at Methods in Dialectology XIV, University of Western Ontario. Invited Presentations Franich, K. Internal and contextual cues to tone perception in Med0mba (or: a how-to guide for doing phonetics experiments in the field). Presentation at Workshop on Language Variation and Change, March 23, 2016, UChicago. Franich, K. Finding the beat in a tone language. Presentation at Workshop on Language Variation and Change, June 2, 2014, UChicago. Aparicio, H., Franich, K. & Xiang, M. The syntax of ellipsis resolution: Eye-tracking evidence from ϕ-feature mismatches. Presentation at Workshop on Language, Cognition, and Computation, February 28, 2013, UChicago. Franich, K. Tone Docking and Spreading in Medumba Verbal Complex, Presentation at Linguistics Research Sharing Forum, November 19, 2010, Boston Teaching As Instructor Spring 2017: Linguistic Field Methods (LING 20301), University of Chicago. Primary instructor, responsible for creating and teaching course materials, grading, and coordinating with teaching assistants. Winter/Spring 2017: Language and the Human (HUMA 17100), University of Chicago. Primary instructor, responsible for creating and teaching course materials, grading, and coordinating with writing intern. Winter 2017: Linguistic Perspectives on Language Disorders (LING 20001), University of Chicago. Primary instructor, responsible for creating and teaching course materials, grading, and coordinating with teaching assistants. 3

4 Teaching Winter 2016: Introduction to Linguistics (LING 20001), University of Chicago. Primary instructor, responsible for creating and teaching course materials, grading, and coordinating with teaching assistants : Spanish teacher at International Language Institute, Northampton, MA. Taught Spanish (speaking, reading and writing) to adult learners : ELL teacher at EF Education First. Taught classes on college-level writing to English language learners at EF Education First, one of the largest international programs for language education and cultural exchange. 2008: ELL teacher at Ajb atz Enlace Quiché. Taught English at a non-profit organization located in the highlands of Guatemala specializing in bringing technology and educational resources to rural communities. As Teaching Assistant Spring 2015: Morphology (LING 21000), University of Chicago - Teaching assistant to Jackson Lee. Taught weekly section, graded assignments and exams, met with students during office hours. Fall 2014: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (LING 20101), University of Chicago - Teaching assistant to Jason Riggle. Taught weekly section, graded assignments and exams, met with students during office hours. Spring 2014: Historical Linguistics (LING 21300), University of Chicago - Teaching assistant to Yaroslav Gorbachov. Taught weekly section, graded assignments and exams, met with students during office hours. Spring 2013: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (LING 20101), University of Chicago - Teaching assistant to Martina Martinović. Taught weekly section, graded assignments and exams, met with students during office hours. Spring 2011: Linguistic Field Methods (LX501), Boston University - Teaching assistant to Cathy O Connor. Graded assignments and papers, helped supervise in-class elicitations. Spring 2010: Linguistic Field Methods (LX501), Boston University - Teaching assistant to Cathy O Connor. Graded assignments and papers, helped supervise in-class elicitations. Certifications and Training Fall 2014: Completed Principles of Teaching Writing (ENGL 50300) in order to be qualified to teach advanced courses on academic writing and rhetoric in the Writing Program at the University of Chicago. Other Employment : Research Assistant to Dr. Alan Yu, University of Chicago. Created database entries for Washo Dictionary Project : Research Assistant to Dr. Catherine O Connor, Boston Digitized and organized audio tapes of elicitations on Northern Pomo language : Research assistant at Goodman Research Group, Inc. Designed instruments and conducted evaluation research on non-formal education programs including museums, public television and radio, early literacy programs, and science centers. 4

5 Grants, Awards & Fellowships Fieldwork Mellon Foundation-University of Chicago Dissertation Completion Fellowship for academic year, $31,800 plus tuition, fees, and health insurance National Science Foundation SBE Dissertation Improvement Grant BCS : The Interaction Between Tone, Prosody and Accent (Co-PI Alan C.L. Yu, ), $15,339 Travel scholarship, African Language Fund Travel Scholarship, University of Chicago, $1, 400 Scholarship for language study, African Studies Fund Scholarship, University of Chicago, $700 Travel scholarship, Workshop on Sociolinguistic Language Documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa, $1, 500 Rella Cohn Fund for Graduate Research in Linguistics (2012), $642 University of Chicago Fellowship ( ), full tuition and stipend Bates College Bechtel Award for outstanding thesis research and outreach in the community (2005), $500 Ongoing fieldwork on Medumba, a Grassfields Bantoid language spoken in southwestern Cameroon. Field trips completed to date: Winter and Summer Funded by NSF SBE DDIG BCS Summer Travel funded through scholarship from 2011 Workshop on Sociolinguistics of Language Documentation, NSF grant to Dr. Jeff Good and Dr. Tucker Childs, fieldwork funded by U of C Rella Cohn Fund for Linguistic Research and research funds granted to Dr. Cathy O Connor Summer Funded by NSF grant BCS to Dr. Catherine O Connor Summer Funded by NSF grant BCS to Dr. Catherine O Connor Academic Service Computer Skills Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of the International Phonetic Association Co-organizer, Workshop on Dynamic Modeling in Phonetics and Phonology, University of Chicago, May 2017 Abstract reviewer, North East Linguistic Society (NELS) Student Representative, Committee on Graduate Teaching, University of Chicago Linguistics Department Student Coordinator, Workshop on Language Variation and Change, University of Chicago, Ad hoc reviewer, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (2014) Abstract reviewer, Chicago Linguistic Society Creator/coordinator, African Linguistics Reading Group, University of Chicago, 2013-present Co-Organizer, The 49th Annual Chicago Linguistic Society, 2013 Treasurer, Chicago Linguistics Society, Co-Organizer, The 34th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Member, Association for Laboratory Phonology Member, Linguistic Society of America R, SPSS, LATEX, OpenOffice, Linux, Microsoft Windows Languages English (Native), Spanish (Advanced), French (Intermediate), Med0mba (Beginner/Fieldwork knowledge), Mandarin (Research knowledge) December 8,

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