Julie Franck
November 2015
Born 20.11.1972
Nationality : Belgian
2 children
Laboratoire de Psycholinguistique
Développement du langage et cognition
Boulevard du Pont d'Arve, 40
1205 Genève, Suisse
Tel : +41 22 379 91 07
Email : [email protected]
Website :
http://www.unige.ch/fapse/psycholinguistique/devlang/
Education
 PhD in Psychological Sciences (May 2000), Université catholique de Louvain
 Licence in Psychology and Educational Sciences (June 1995), Université catholique de Louvain
 Baccalauréat in Linguistics (June 1993), Université catholique de Louvain
Professional Experience
 2006 2002-2006
 2000-2002
 1998-2000
 1996-1998
 1995-1997
Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche, University of Geneva
Maître-assistant, University of Geneva
Postdoctoral Researcher for the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique,
visiting at the University of Geneva
Doctoral Researcher, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université
catholique de Louvain
Doctoral Researcher, Université catholique de Louvain
Honorary research assistant, University College London
Methodological and Clinical Skills
 Experimental study of language production (picture naming and variants, sentence completion in
spoken and written speech) and language comprehension (self-paced reading, passive reading, error
detection, lexical decision, word monitoring), involving on-line (naming latencies, reaction times)
and off-line (errors) dependent measures
 Experimental study of language acquisition (eye-tracking, elicited sentence production, sentencepicture matching tasks)
 Electrophysiological study of language comprehension (Event-Related and Lateralized Readiness
Potentials) and of preattentional syntactic processing (Mismatch Negativity)
 Experimental testing of populations with language disorders; aphasics, SLI and autistic children
Research Topics
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Memory and syntactic processing
The role of executive control in parsing in children and adults
The acquisition of word order
Syntactic processing in autism, and its relationship with cognitive development
Artificial grammar learning
Experimental cross-linguistic research on the role of structural, conceptual and morphophonological
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factors in agreement
 Representation and processing of morphosyntactic features in adults and children (FNS)
 Experimental investigation of gender: levels of representation and processes of encoding (FNS)
Teaching and Student Supervision
 Teaching: Language acquisition, Cognitive development and language, Experimental methods in
psycholinguistics, Qualitative analysis of spoken language
 Direction of Master students’ theses in psycholinguistics and speech therapy on various topics of
language acquisition, language pathology and experimental psycholinguistics
 Supervision of PhD students from the University of Geneva (A. Brunellière, I. Rotondi, R. Lassotta,
S. Villata, F. Mirdamadi) and PhD students visiting in the framework of international collaborations
and exchanges (K. Spalek, F. Chevaux)
International collaborations (past and present)
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Ines Anton-Mendez, University of Utrecht
Jeffrey Bowers, University of Bristol
Albert Costa, University of Barcelona
Anna Gavarro, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Teresa Guasti, University of Milan-Biccoca
Cornelia Hamann, University of Oldenburg
Brian McElree, New York University
Janet Nicol, University of Arizona
Akira Omaki, Johns Hopkins University
Luigi Rizzi, University of Sienna
Herbert Schriefers, University of Nijmegen
Katharina Spalek, University of Berlin
Whitney Tabor
Gabriella Vigliocco, University College London
Matthew Wagers, University of California
Grants
 International Short Visit, Fonds National Suisse de la recherche, New York University (February-May
2014): “Interference in language comprehension : Bridging research domains » (10.000 CHF)
 Extension of the Fonds National Suisse de la recherche (Subside no 100014-126924), University of
Geneva (2010-2013): “Word order and movement : An acquisition study” (24.000 CHF)
 Visiting Professor grant, Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Psicologiche e della Formazione, University
of Trento, June 1-30 2010 (3500 EUR)
 Fonds National Suisse de la recherche (Subside no 100014-126924), University of Geneva (20102013): “Word order and movement : An acquisition study” (329.690 CHF)
 Fonds National Suisse de la recherche (Subside no 105311-109987), co-director with Prof.
U. Frauenfelder, University of Geneva (2005-2008): “Representation and processing of
morphosyntactic features: An interdisciplinary approach” (218.927 CHF)
 Fonds National Suisse de la recherche (Subside no 1114-068250.02), co-director with Prof.
U. Frauenfelder, University of Geneva (2002-2005): “The psycholinguistics of gender production:
Levels of representation and processes of encoding” (379.858 CHF)
 Mobility grant from the UCLouvain (2001)
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 Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium (1998-2000 ; 2000-2002)
 NATO collaborator with Dr. G. Vigliocco (1997-2000)
 European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Summer school grant (1997)
Other Academic Activities
 Reviewer for: Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, Applied Psycholinguistics, Cognition,
Developmental Science, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, European Review of Applied
Psychology, Journal of Language Learning and Development, Journal of Language and Cognitive
Processes, Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Journal of
Psycholinguistic Research, Morphology, Perceptual and Motor Skills, Linguistics, Psychologie
Française, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology : Learning, Memory and Cognition, The
Linguistic Review, Language, Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Morphology
 Reviewer of research grant proposals for the National Science Foundation (USA), the Agence
Nationale de la Recherche (France), Emergences de la Mairie de Paris, Programme Franco-allemand
en sciences humaines et sociales (ANR-DFG), Open Research Area in Europe for the Social Sciences
(ANR)
 Reviewer of international conferences: Cuny Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston
University Conference on Language Development, Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for
Language Processing, International Congress of Linguists, Latsis Colloquium of the University of
Geneva
 Ethics Independent Advisor for the EU funded research : Advancing The European Multilingual
Experience (AThEME)
 Member of PhD juries (F. Chevaux, U. Lyon; E. Cauvet, U. Poitiers; I. Rotondi, U. Geneva; C.
Lusson, U. Nice)
 Organisation of scientific seminars and colloquia, University of Geneva
 Organisation of formation continues for speech therapists, University of Geneva
 Organisation of the tri-annual cycle of conferences Ateliers Regards Croisés sur la petite enfance for
educators from kinder gardens in Geneva
Research Visits and Summer Schools
 International Research Scholar, New York University (Laboratory of Prof. B. McElree), January-June
2014.
 Visiting Professor at the University of Trento (Laboratory of Prof. F. Vespignani), June 1-30 2011
 LSA Summer institute, Dialogues in grammatical theory, experiment and change, MIT/Harvard, JulyAugust 2005
 EALING Summer school in Linguistics, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, September 2003
 ESCOP Summer school on the Psychology of Language, Bressanone, June-July 1997
 Language production laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Laboratory of Dr. G. Vigliocco),
November 1997
 Language production laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Laboratory of Dr. G. Vigliocco),
February-March 1997
 Department of Psychology, University College London (Laboratory of Prof. B. Butterworth), March
1995-June 1996
Miscellaneous
 Languages spoken: French (native), English (fluent), Dutch (notions)
 Organisation of public conferences of general interest (Irak, Yougoslavia, Education, etc.)
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 Representation of the scientific staff at the trade union of UCLouvain
 Member of the editorial board of the publishing house EPO, Belgium
 Diploma of piano and piano teaching
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