Victoria Fromkin
Victoria Alexandra Fromkin (née Landish; May 16, 1923 – January 19, 2000) was an American linguist who taught at UCLA. She 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.
Victoria Fromkin | |
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| Born | Victoria Alexandra Landish May 16, 1923 |
| Died | February 19, 2000 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley UCLA (MA, Ph.D) |
| Spouse |
Jack Fromkin (m. 1948) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics |
| Institutions | UCLA |
| Thesis | Some phonetic specifications of linguistic units: an electromyographic investigation (1965) |
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