Victoria Alexandra Fromkin was an American linguist who taught at UCLA.
23 Facts About Victoria Fromkin
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Victoria Fromkin studied slips of the tongue, mishearing, and other speech errors, which she applied to phonology, the study of how the sounds of a language are organized in the mind.
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Victoria Fromkin earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944.
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Victoria Fromkin married Jack Fromkin, a childhood friend from Passaic, in 1948, and they settled in Los Angeles, California.
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Victoria Fromkin decided to head back to school to study linguistics in her late thirties.
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Victoria Fromkin enrolled at UCLA, received her master's in 1963 and her Ph.
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Victoria Fromkin's thesis was entitled, "Some phonetic specifications of linguistic units: an electromyographic investigation".
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That same year, Fromkin joined the faculty of the linguistics department at UCLA.
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Victoria Fromkin collected more than 12,000 examples of slips of the tongue, which were analyzed in a number of scholarly publications, notably her 1971 Language article and an edited volume, Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence.
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From 1971 to 1975, Victoria Fromkin was part of a team of linguistic researchers studying the speech of the "feral child" known as Genie.
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Victoria Fromkin published several papers about Genie's linguistic development, and her PhD student, Susan Curtiss, wrote a dissertation about Genie's linguistic development under Victoria Fromkin's supervision.
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Victoria Fromkin developed a 300-word vocabulary and syntax for the series, and translated scripts into her created Pakuni language for the series' first two seasons.
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Victoria Fromkin created another constructed language for the vampires in the sci-fi movie Blade.
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Victoria Fromkin became the first woman in the University of California system to be Vice Chancellor of Graduate Programs.
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Victoria Fromkin was elected President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1985.
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Victoria Fromkin was chairwoman of the board of governors of the Academy of Aphasia.
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Victoria Fromkin was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.
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Victoria Fromkin died at the age of 76 on January 19,2000 from colon cancer.
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Victoria Fromkin contributed to the area of linguistics known as speech errors.
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Victoria Fromkin created "Fromkin's Speech Error Database", for which data collection is ongoing.
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Victoria Fromkin theorized that slips of the tongue can occur at many levels including syntactic, phrasal, lexical or semantic, morphological, phonological.
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Victoria Fromkin believed that slips of the tongue could occur as many different process procedures.
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Victoria Fromkin's research helps support the argument that language processing is not modular.