Victoria Fromkin

Victoria Fromkin studied economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and linguistics (both her master's and doctorate) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She was a faculty member of the UCLA Department of Linguistics from 1966 until her passing in 2000, and served as the department chair from 1972 to 1976. From 1979 to 1989, she was the dean of undergraduate programs and vice chancellor of undergraduate programs at UCLA. She was a visiting professor at the Universities of Stockholm, Cambridge, and Oxford. V. Fromkin served as president of the Association of Graduate Schools in 1988 and chaired the board of the Academy of Aphasia. UCLA awarded her the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Professional Achievement Award, and she served as the U.S. representative and executive committee member of the International Permanent Committee of Linguistics (CIPL). She was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Psychological Association, and the Acoustical Society of America. In 1996, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She published over one hundred books, monographs, and papers on topics related to phonetics, phonology, tone languages, African languages, speech errors, processing models, aphasia, and the brain/mind/language interface—all subjects of her research. Professor V. Fromkin passed away on January 19, 2000, at the age of 76.