About
Victoria Fromkin was a foundational figure in UCLA's Department of Linguistics, serving as faculty from 1965 until her passing in 2000. She held significant leadership roles including Department Chair (1974-1978) and Dean/Vice Chancellor of Graduate Programs (1979-1989). Her pioneering research focused on psycholinguistics, speech errors as linguistic evidence, and brain-language relationships.
Research Interests: Brain and language processing, lexical representation, linguistic analysis of aphasia, and phonetic studies of speech errors. Her work established foundational understanding of how speech errors reveal cognitive processes.
Honors:
- President, Linguistic Society of America (1985)
- Elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Distinguished Teaching Award from UCLA Alumni Association
- Festschrift published in her honor: Language, Speech and Mind
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