Fromkin, Victoria
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Name (Latin)
Fromkin, Victoria
Other forms of name
Fromkin, V. A. (Victoria A.)
Fromkin, Vicki
Fromkin, Victoria A
Landish, Victoria Alexandra
Date of birth
1923-05-16
Date of death
2000-01-19
Place of birth
Passaic (N.J.)
Place of death
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Associated country
United States
Place of residence/headquarters
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activity
Linguistics
Associate group
Communist Party of the United States of America
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Linguistics
Linguistic Society of America
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Academy of Aphasia
Occupation
College teachers Linguists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Fuller form of name
Victoria Alexandra
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Schacter, P. A phonology of Akan ... 1968.
- Phonetic linguistics, 1985:CIP t.p. (Victoria A. Fromkin, Dept. of Linguist., UCLA)
- Robins, R.H. Linguistics and linguistic evidence, c1985:t.p. (Victoria A. Fromkin) pref. (V. A. (Vicki) Fromkin)
- An introduction to language, c2003:(Victoria Fromkin) galley (B.A. in economics, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, 1944; M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles in 1963 and 1965, respectively; d. January 19, 2000 at the age of 76)
- BL database, 29 Aug. 2006(hdg.: Fromkin, Victoria Alexandra; usage: Victoria A. Fromkin; Victoria Fromkin)
- Wikipedia, 8 October 2013(Victoria Fromkin, born 16 May 1923, Passaic, New Jersey, maiden name was Victoria Alexandra Landish, married in 1948, and settled in Los Angeles, California. She was active in the Communist Party USA, resigning in 1956; received a PhD frm UCLA in 1965, joining the UCLA Linguistics Department in 1965. She was elected President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1985, was of the board of governors of the Academy of Aphasia and was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1996. Died 19 January 2000)
Wikipedia description:
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.
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