Jerome Packard

Jerome L. Packard (born 1951) is an American linguist specializing in Chinese linguistics and psycholinguistics. He is a professor of linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his research interests include Chinese word structure, Chinese psycholinguistics, and Chinese language learning.

Packard attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chinese Language and Literature in 1976. In 1982, he earned a Master of Arts degree in Linguistics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He then received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University in 1984.

Packard is a professor of linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has performed research on Chinese aphasia and dyslexia, the first-language acquisition of Chinese, and the acquisition of Chinese as a second language. 

Over the years, he has authored numerous publications on the Chinese language, including:

• A Linguistic Investigation of Aphasic Chinese Speech (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics) - September 1993
• New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation - September 1997
• The Morphology of Chinese: A Linguistic and Cognitive Approach - August 28, 2000
• Chinese Children's Reading Acquisition (with Wenling Li and Janet S. Gaffney)- 2002

The book The Morphology of Chinese is influential and widely cited in Chinese linguistics.

He is also a contributor to The Cambridge Grammar of the Chinese Language (Chu-Ren Huang and Dingxu Shi), and The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics(William S-Y Wang and Chaofen Sun)

• Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Professor, Educational Psychology
• Professor, Linguistics
• Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

• February 2005: Faculty Research Exchange Fellow, UIUC/Peking University Exchange Program
• June 2005: Keynote Lecture, Thirteenth International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Leiden, The Netherlands
• May 2012: Faculty Research Exchange Fellow, Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University

• October 2002: "English Sentence Processing in Chinese Speakers of English as a Second Language". UIUC Research Board ($14,391)
• September 2004: "The Effect of Orthographic Density on Word Reading Speed in Chinese". UIUC Research Board ($7,407)
• December 2004: "ERP Correlates of Sentence Processing in Mandarin". UIUC Research Board ($7,715)
• December 2006: Co-principal investigator (with Hiroko Yamashita and Yuki Hirose) NSF Conference Grant for International Conference on Head-final Structures ($17,915), convened at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, September 2007)
• March 2010: "The Processing of Complex Structures by Second-language Learners". UIUC Research Board ($20,350)
• May 2010: Higher Education Partner, US Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant awarded to Barrington 220 School District, Barrington Illinois. ($1,500,000)
• May 2012: "Neurophysiological Evidence of Gaps in Relative Clauses". UIUC Research Board ($9,470)