FALLOU NGOM

Assistant Professor of French & Linguistics

Department of Modern & Classical Languages

Western Washington University

516 High Street, HU219

Bellingham, WA 98225-9057

Telephone: (360) 650-7427

Email: fallou.ngom@wwu.edu

EDUCATION

·        Ph.D. French Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002

·        M.A: French Linguistics, University of Montana-Missoula, MT 1996-97

·        Maîtrise d’anglais: Grammaire et Linguistique, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (Sénégal), 1996     

·        Licence d’anglais: Grammaire et Linguistique, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (Sénégal), 1994

·        DEUG d’anglais: Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (Sénégal), 1993

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

·        Assistant Professor of French & Linguistics (tenure-tract), Western Washington University, September 2002 to present

·        French 314 (Phonetics) and French 201 (Intermediate), Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University, Fall 2005

·        French 385 (Culture et Conversation) and French 301 (Grammar Review), Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University, Summer 2005

·        Linguistics 301 (Generative Phonology), French 314 (Phonetics) and French 102 (Elementary), Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University, Spring 2005

·        Seminar: Sociolinguistics (French 440)  & French 102 (Elementary), Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University, Winter 2005

·        Linguistics 301 (Generative Phonology), French 314 (Phonetics) and French 203 (Intermediate), Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University, Spring 2004

·        French 385 (Culture et Conversation) and French 202, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University, Winter 2004

·        French 314 (Phonetics) and French 201, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University, Fall 2003

·        Linguistics 301 (Generative Phonology) and French 103, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University, Spring 2003

·        Seminar: History of the French Language (French 450) &  French 314 (Phonetics), Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University, Winter 2003

·        French 101 (Elementary) and French 302 (Composition), Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Western Washington University, Fall 2002

·        Supervising Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Spring 2002

·        French for Architects (French 199) Instructor, Department of French, University of Illinois, Spring 2002.

·        French Review II (French 106) Instructor, Department of French, University of Illinois, Fall 2001

·        First semester Wolof Instructor (African Linguistics 241), Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Fall 2001

·        First and second semester Wolof Instructor (African Linguistics 241/242), Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, from Fall 1997 to Spring 2001

·        Third and fourth semester Intensive Wolof Instructor (African Linguistics 343/ 344), Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Summer II, 2000

·        Intensive Intermediate French Instructor, Department of French, University of Illinois,

Summer I, 2000

·        Elementary French (French 101 and 102) Instructor, Department of French, University of Montana-Missoula, Fall, Spring and Summer 1996-1997

·        English Teacher in A.C.A.P.E.S. High School, Ziguinchor, Senegal, 1995

LANGUAGE SKILLS

1.      French:                    Written, spoken  (native: Senegalese variety)

2.      English:                    Written, spoken  (fluent)

3.      Wolof:                     Written, spoken  (native)

4.      Mandinka:  Written, spoken  (fluent)

5.      Pulaar:                     Written, spoken  (fluent)

6.      Arabic:                    Written, spoken  (conversational)

7.      Portuguese Creole: Written, spoken (fluent) (Lingua franca in Guinea Bissau)

8.      Seereer:                  Conversational

9.      Joola                      Conversational

10.  Spanish:                  Conversational

11.  Mankagne:             Conversational 

12.  Latin:                      Good Knowledge (Reading and Writing)

PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES

·        Forensic language analysis in asylum applications of African refugees: challenges and promises to be presented at the Conference on: Movements, Migrations and Displacements in Africa, University of Texas at Austin, March 24-26 2006.

·        Issues in using (socio) linguistic evidence to determine nationality: The case of a Sierra Leonean Fula Asylum Seeker Presented at the conference: Language and Law 2005: East meets West, University of Lodz, Poland, September 13, 2005.

·        Arabic-based scripts in Senegalese Muslim communities: The case of Wolofal presented at the Annual Meeting of Michigan Linguistic Society, University of Michigan-Flint, October 16, 2004.

·        Wolof variation and change in the Senegalese speech community presented at the 35^th ACAL (Annual Conference on African Linguistics), Harvard University, April 02-04, 2004

·        Les variétés linguistiques du français au Sénégal et leurs implications sociolinguistiques, presented at the Colloque A.F.L.S. (Association for French Language Studies), Université de Tours, France , September 25-27, 2003

·        Linguistic and Sociocultural Hybridization in Senegalese Urban Spaces, presented at The African Urban Spaces: History and Culture Conference held at the University of Texas at Austin, March 28-30, 2003.

·        Art and Culture in West African Societies presented at The Japan Week 2003 Symposia and Special Lectures, held at Western Washington University, April 28-May 1, 2003.

·        Language and Identity in Senegal, International Conference on Language and Identity, Baruch College (CUNY), New York, October 2-5, 2002.

·        On the Prosodic Conditioning of the [E]-[e] merger in open-syllables in Parisian French, NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) with Zsuzanna Fagyal and Samira Hassa, North Carolina State University, October 2001.

·        Learners’ Individual Differences in Language Classrooms, 5^th Annual ALTA Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2001.

·        Lexical Borrowings as Pathways to Senegal’s Past and Present, Pathways to Africa’s Past Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2001.

·        Lexical Borrowings as Sociolinguistic Variables, 25^th Annual Pennsylvania Linguistic Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2001.

·        The Sociolinguistic Motivations of Lexical Borrowings in Senegal, Thursday Linguistic Seminar, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2000.

·        Religious and Linguistic Behaviors as Means of Anti-Colonial Resistance in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of the Murids, 31^st Annual African Linguistic Conference, Boston University, Spring 2000.

·        Les variables sociolinguistiques dans le journal satirique sénégalais: Le Cafard Libéré, 3rd University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Student Conference on African and African Diaspora Issues, Spring 2000.

·        Linguistic Resistance as an Expression of Political, Cultural and Religious Resistance in Senegal, African Studies' International Conference, at Michigan State University, Fall 1999.

·        Sociolinguistic Profile of Senegal, Graduate Students' Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 1998.

·        Wolof Native Speakers' Problems in the Acquisition of English Situation-Bound Utterances, International Pragmatic Conference, University of Illinois, Fall 1997.

·        Multilingualism in Africa: The Example of Senegal, 15^th Annual Foreign Languages Days, University of Montana-Missoula, Spring 1997.

PRESENTATIONS AT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY:

·        “Forensic Linguistics: A question-and-answer introduction to a rapidly growing field”, The Linguistics Speaker Series. Western Washington University, Fall 2005.

• “How does faculty research conducted abroad impact Western’s curriculum”, The International Program Advisory Committee (IPAC) Symposia, Fall 2005.
• “Arabic-based scripts in the Senegalese speech community”, The Linguistics Speaker Series, Western Washington University, Fall 2004.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

1. Lexical Borrowings as Sociolinguistic Variables in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Germany: Lincom Europa. (under review for publication).
2. Wolof (A grammatical description). Germany: Lincom Europa Languages of the World/Materials, No. 333, 2003.  ISBN 389586 8450.
3. Phonetic and Phonological Description of MandinkakaN as spoken in Ziguinchor.

Germany: Lincom Europa Studies in African Linguistics, 2000. ISBN 3895869473. 

Book Chapters

1. Invited: ‘‘Arabic loanwords in Wolof’’ forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, 2005-2006.
2. Peer-reviewed: ‘‘Linguistic and sociocultural hybridization in Senegalese urban spaces’’. In Urbanization & African Cultures, Toyin Falola and Steve Salm, editors. North Carolina:  Carolina Academic Press, 2004, p. 279-294.
3.  Peer-reviewed: ‘‘Lexical Borrowings as Pathways to Senegal’s Past and Present’’. In Africanizing Knowledge: African Studies Across the Disciplines, Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, editors, Transaction Press, University of Rutgers, 2002, p. 125-147.
4. Invited: ‘Pulaar’. In Encyclopedia of the World's Languages: Past and Present, New York, H.W. Wilson Press, 2001, p.572-575.

Articles

1. Peer-reviewed: “Forensic sociolinguistic analysis: A Fula asylum seeker claiming to be from Sierra Leone” under review for publication in The International Journal of Speech, Language and Law.
2. Peer-reviewed:” The Contribution of Serigne Moussa Ka in the Murid Wolofal Literary Tradition”, forthcoming in Sudanic Africa: A Journal of Historical Sources.
3. Peer-reviewed: “Ajami Scripts in the Senegalese Speech Community”, forthcoming in Journal of Arabic & Islamic Studies.
4. Peer-reviewed: ‘‘Les Implications sociolinguistiques des emprunts du wolof au français ’’, forthcoming in SAFARA: Revue Internationale de Langues, Littératures et Cultures.
5. Peer-reviewed: “Non-religious Functions of Wolof & Pulaar Ajami Writings in West Africa” under review for publication in Al-‘Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic.
6.  Peer-reviewed: ‘‘Wolof variation and change in the Senegalese Speech Community’’, under review for publication in Journal of Universal Language.
7. Peer-reviewed: ‘‘Age and Gender as Sociolinguistic Variables in Saint-Louis, Senegal’’, under review for publication in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences.
8. Invited: “The secular use of Ajami writings in Senegal.WARA (West African Research Association) Newsletter, Spring 2005: p.17-18.
9. Invited: “Arabic-based Writing Scripts in Senegal”. WARA (West African Research Association) Newsletter, Fall 2004: p.13.
10. Peer-reviewed: ‘‘Language and Ethnic Identity in the Senegalese Speech Community’’. In International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Issue 170, 2004, p.95-111.
11. Peer-reviewed: ‘‘The Social Status of Arabic, French and English in the Senegalese Speech Community’’. In Language Variation and Change, Vol. 15, 2003, p. 351-368.
12. Invited: ‘‘Fulani’’, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Dickson Eyoh (eds.). In Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History, London: Routledge, 2003, p. 227-229.
13. Conference Proceedings: ‘Art and Culture in West African Societies’ In The Japan Week 2003 Proceedings of Symposia and Special Lectures, Western Washington University, p. 83-87.
14. Peer-reviewed: ‘‘Linguistic Resistance in the Murid Community in Senegal’’. In Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2002, p.214-226.
15. Conference Proceedings: ‘‘L'opposition [E]-[e] en syllabes ouvertes de fin de mot en français parisien: étude acoustique prélimaire’’. In the proceedings of the XXIVèmes Journées d'études sur la Parole, Nancy, June 24-27, 2002, p. 165-168, (co-authors: Zsuzanna Fagyal, Samira Hassa, Fallou Ngom).
16. Peer-reviewed: ‘‘Linguistic Borrowing as Evidence of the Social History of the Senegalese Speech Community’’. In International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 158, 2002. p.37-51.
17. Peer-reviewed : ‘‘Les variables sociolinguistiques dans le journal satirique sénégalais: le Cafard Libéré’’. In The French Review, Vol. 75, No. 5, 2002, p. 914-924.
18. Peer-reviewed: ‘‘Sociolinguistic Motivations of Lexical Borrowings in Senegal’’. In Studies in The Linguistic Sciences, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2000, p. 159-172.
19. Peer-reviewed: ‘‘Sociolinguistic Profile of the Senegalese Speech Community’’. In Studies in The Linguistic Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 1, 1999, p. 131-146.
20. Invited: ‘‘Greeting Systems of Mandinka and Pulaar’’. In Lonely Planet Publications: West Africa, 1999, p.909 & 912.
21. Translation: Ngom et al., Translation from English to French: A glossary of Mandinka, UNICEF, Dakar, 1996.

PREVIOUS RESEARCH & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

·        Attended The Fifth International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis at the University of Lodz from 7th to 11th September 2005.

·        Research Assistant in Acoustic Phonology using CSL (Computerized Speech Laboratory) to study ongoing changes in French phonology, Department of French, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring & Summer 2001

·        Volition Inc. Freelance Foreign Language Tester (French) responsible for identifying ungrammatical linguistic structures, suggesting corrections and reporting them to the programmer, Fall 2001

·        Dissertation Fieldwork in Saint-Louis to interview and record 200 Wolof speakers, and to describe the phonological, lexical and other linguistic traits in their spontaneous speech and their sociolinguistic significance, Senegal, Fall 2000

·        Certificate of Completion of Study in African Language Program Administration, delivered by the NALRC (National African Language Resource Center) & ALTA (African Language Teachers' Association), University of Wisconsin-Madison, July, 2000

·        Freelance Abstractor for Linguistics and Language Behaviors Abstracts, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Western Region Office, San Diego California, Summer 2001

·        Internship on Linguistic Competence in the 6 National Languages of Senegal, 1995-1996

·        M.A Thesis Fieldwork in The Republic of Guinea Bissau to collect spontaneous speech of Mandinka speakers in Guinea Bissau, and compare it with the speech of Mandinka speakers in Ziguinchor, Senegal, and to write a comparative phonological description of the language, Summer 1995

·        Participant in Advanced and Vocational Trainings in Foreign Languages Teaching Methods, C.L.A.D. (Dakar Center for Applied Linguistics) 1995

GRANTS & AWARDS

·        Individual Faculty Development Grant, Western Washington University, Summer 2005.

·        ACLS/SSRC/NEH International Area Studies Fellow Fall 2004

·        WARA (West African Research Association) Post-doctoral Fellowship for research in West Africa, Summer 2004

·        Summer Research Grant, Western Washington University, Summer 2003

·        AGTC (Advanced Graduate Teacher Certificate), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002

·        Graduate College Conference Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall & Spring  2001

·        University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2000

·        Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2000

·        NALRC  (National African Language Resource Center) Fellowship,

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 2000

·        Ranked as Excellent Instructor (Section F & D) , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2000

·        Graduate College Conference Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 1999

·        Graduate Teacher Certificate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 1999

·        Ranked as Excellent Instructor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall, 1997, 1998 & 1999

·        Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to teach Advanced Wolof, Summer Institute for the African Languages Program, Summer 1998

·        Award for Outstanding Achievement and Campus Citizenship, University of Montana-Missoula, Spring 1997

SERVICES

Service to Western Washington University

• Member of the FAC (Faculty Affairs Council) Fall 2004-to present
• Ad-hoc Budget Committee of FAC (Faculty Affairs Council), Winter 2004-2005
• Member of the  Diversity Achievement Award Committee, Spring 2004-2005
• Helped lead a tour in the New Faculty Orientation, Fall 2003
• Alternate member on the Student Academic Grievance Board, Winter 2004
• Participated in Teaching-Learning Academy (TLA), Fall 2003
• Working to set up ISEP (International Student Exchange Program) between Western Washington University and Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Senegal
• Helped with Western Washington University membership to WARA (West African Research Association)

Service to the Department of Modern & Classical Languages

• Member of  the Activities Committee, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, 2005-2006
• Co-founder and member of the editorial board of the newly established Western Washington University Working Papers in Linguistics (WWUWPL)
• Member of the Organizing Committee for the 18^th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL18) to held at Western Washington University in June, 2006
• Participated in Western Preview to present information about the department of Modern & Classical Languages to prospective students and their parents, April 2005
• Member of the ad hoc committee responsible for the publication of department’s newsletter Interlingua, Spring 2004
• Participate periodically to the Table Française (‘The French Table’ where students and faculty and people from the community interested in the French language and culture meet to speak French and socialize)

• Mentoring a limited term faculty, Winter quarter 2003
• Temporarily coordinating 1^st year French classes, Winter 2003
• Helped contact and bring two speakers on Campus: Professor Hilaire Bouka & Professor Eyamba Bokamba (Spring 2003)

• Supervised a student taking an Independent (French 400), working on Language and Ethnicity, Fall 2003
• Currently supervising several students majoring in French & Linguistics to prepare their applications for graduate studies in Linguistics. 

• Participated in the Japan Week 2003 by presenting a paper on ‘Art in West Africa’

Service elsewhere

• Member of the newly established Advisory Board of the African Language Materials Archive (ALMA), 2005.
• External reviewer of the scholarship of an Assistant Professor from Colorado College  under review for tenure, September 2004.
• Pulaar and Mandinka proofreader, www.Making Cents.org, Summer 2002
• Wolof, Portuguese Creole (Guinea Bissau) and Mandinka Interpreter, Language Services Associates, Inc. Fall 2001
• Reviewer of the Pulaar Reference Grammar Book, published by the NALRC (National African Language Resource Center), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002
• Content provider of the Wolof online project (www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/wolof/), Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Summer 2001
• International Teaching Assistants’ Mentor (on Academic Role Plays and Share Sessions), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2000 and Fall 2001
• Graduate student participant in hiring communities for assistant professors in French Linguistics for the Department of French and SLATE (Second Language Teacher Education) for the Division of English as International Language, Fall and Spring 1999
• LSO (The Linguistic Student Organization) officer responsible for contacting and bringing speakers on Campus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall and Spring 1998
• Arabic & English Interpretation, Court House, Missoula, Montana, Spring 1996
• Vice President of the Faculty of Arts and Letters Student Organization, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal, 1995-1996
• Co-founder of the Grammar and Linguistic Club, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal, 1995
• Vice President of the English Club, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal, 1994-1995

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS:

·        Currently working with WARA (West African Research Association) at Boston University and TICFIA (Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access) project at MSU on a joint-project that seeks to create a digital multimedia gallery of Ajami writings (a modified Arabic orthography used to write African languages for centuries) in West Africa.

ABREVIATED LIST OF RESEARCH PAPERS IN PROGRESS:

·        Issues in using (socio) linguistic traits in the determination of nationality: The case of a Sierra Leonean Fula Asylum Seeker.

·        Forensic language analysis in asylum applications of African refugees: challenges and promises.

·        The sociolinguistic implications of American English in West Africa: The case of French-speaking Senegal.

·        Using dialectal features of West African ‘Englishes’ and ‘Frenches’ to determine the primary country of socialization of speakers.

·        The linguistic variations of Ajami (Arabic-based writings) and their sociolinguistic significance in West Africa

·        Linguistic description and sociolinguistic implications of Portuguese Creole as spoken in Guinea Bissau.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

• Interaction between French and West African Languages
• Interaction between Arabic and West African Languages
• Interaction between English and West African Languages
• Language Variation and Change
• Sociolinguistic Variations of French in sub-Saharan Africa
• Sociolinguistic Variation of English in sub-Saharan Africa
• Linguistic and Sociocultural Implications of Globalization in sub-Saharan Africa
• Linguistic and Cultural Implications of Colonization in sub-Saharan Africa
• Linguistic and Cultural Implications of  Islamization and Christianization

      in sub-Saharan Africa

• Grammaticization: Sociocultural and Linguistic Principles
• Phonology of West Atlantic Languages ( especially Wolof, Pulaar, Seereer, Mandinka, Mankagne, Joola and Portuguese Creole)
• Phonology of French (Standard French, French Creoles and Pidgins)
• Phonology of English (Standard English, English Creoles

      and Pidgins)

• History of Linguistics, History of African Linguistics
• Program, Curriculum & Material Development and Evaluation for African Languages
• Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education
• Instructional Technology for Western and non-Western Languages
• Recent and growing interest: ‘Forensic Sociolinguistics’: Using sociolinguistic evidence to determine the social background and the national origin of speakers.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND HONOR ORGANIZATIONS

• LSA (Linguistic Society of America)
• IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists)
• AATF (American Association of the Teachers of French)
• ALTA (African Languages Teachers’ Association)
• WARA (West African Research Association)
• Phi Kappa Phi, University of Illinois Chapter