Victoria Fromkin
Victoria Fromkin · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Linguist renowned for research on speech errors and phonetics.
1923, Passaic, New Jersey, United States — 2000, Los Angeles, California, United States
United States
Victoria Fromkin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Linguist renowned for research on speech errors and phonetics.
Fromkin was a UCLA linguist renowned for using speech errors ('slips of the tongue') as a window into how the brain plans and produces language, and she co-authored a standard introductory linguistics textbook. She was born into a Jewish family in Passaic, New Jersey. A pioneering woman in the field, she also served as a UCLA graduate dean.
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Linguist renowned for research on speech errors and phonetics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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