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Victoria Fromkin
American linguist
Victoria Alexandra Fromkin (née&#;Landish; May 16, – January 19, ) 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.[1]
Biography
Fromkin was born in Passaic, New Jersey as Victoria Alexandra Landish on May 16, She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in She married Jack Fromkin, a childhood friend from Passaic, in , and they settled in Los Angeles, California.
She decided to head back to school to study linguistics in her late thirties.[2] She enrolled at UCLA, received her master's in and her Ph.D in Her thesis was entitled, "Some phonetic specifications of linguistic units: an electromyographic investigation".[3] That same year, Fromkin joined the faculty of the linguistics department at UCLA.