1st Edition
Language, Speech and Mind Studies in Honour of Victoria A. Fromkin
First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkin’s 65th birthday in 1988. It reflects her very special interdisciplinary interests and flair, thereby celebrating her own important contributions in the areas of phonetics, phonology, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and the philosophy of science.
Introduction
Part One: Phonetic and Phonological Studies
1. Creak as a Sociophonetic Marker
Caroline Henton and Anthony Bladon
2. On Feature Copying: Parameters of Tone Rules
Larry M. Hyman and Douglas Pulleyblank
3. Phonological Features for Places of Articulation
Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson
4. Phonetic Universals in Consonant Systems
Björn Lindblom and Ian Maddieson
Part Two: Clinical and Neurolinguistic Studies
5. Abnormal Language Acquisition and Grammar: Evidence for the Modularity of Language
Susan Curtiss
6. Advances in the Neuroanatomical Correlates of Aphasia and the Understanding of the Neural Substrates of Language
Antonio R. Damasio and Hanna Damasio
7. The Long-term Linguistic Consequences of Head Injury in Childhood: a Review
John H.V. Gilbert
8. The Neurolinguistic Substrate for Sign Language
Edward S. Klima, Ursula Bellugi and Howard Poizner
9. Functional Levels in Normal, Intensified and Aphasic Speech
John C. Marshall and Freda Newcombe
10. William Elder (1864–1931): Diagram Maker and Experimentalist
Harry A. Whitaker
11. The Independence of Language: Evidence from a Retarded Hyperlinguistic Individual
Jeni Yamada
Part Three: Other Psycholinguistic and Linguistic Studies
12. The Perfect Speech Error
Anne Cutler
13. Free Reading and the Development of Literacy
Stephen D. Krashen
14. The Scarcity of Speech Errors in Hindi
Manjari Ohala and John J. Ohala
15. Empiricism and Universal Grammar in Chomsky’s Work
Sven Öhman
16. Linguistics and Computer Speech Recognition
Robert D. Rodman
17. What’s in a name? Inferences from Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomena
Paul Schachter
18. A Relevance-theoretic Account of Conditionals
Neil Smith and Amahl Smith
Biography
Larry M. Hyman, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the France-Berkeley Fund, has worked extensively on phonological theory, tone systems, linguistic typology, and the descriptive, comparative and historical study of Bantu and other African languages within the Niger-Congo family. His publications cover both general and African linguistics including several descriptive grammars as well as theoretical, typological, and historical articles in phonology, morphology, and syntax. A past Guggenheim Fellow, Larry Hyman chaired the Berkeley Department of Linguistics from 1991 to 2002, has directed the France-Berkeley Fund since 2010, and served as 2017 president of the Linguistic Society of America.
Charles Li, Professor Emeritus, UCSB, Dean of the Graduate Division (1990-2017). Co-author with Sandra Thompson, Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar, A Reference Grammar of Wappo. Editor of Mechanisms of Syntactic Change, Word Order and Word Order Change, Subject and Topic. Author of The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China before Mao, The Turbulent Sea: Passage to a New World, Lord Guan: Warrior, Hero and God: A Historical Novel (To appear in March 2025). Author and coauthor of scores of linguistic articles in syntax, morpho-syntactic change, language typology, the evolutionary origin of language, and tone acquisition in child language.
Review of the first publication:
‘… this book represents well the breadth of [ Victoria A. Fromkin’s] interests in language both within and beyond the traditional core areas of linguistics.’
— Frances Ingemann, Language, Vol. 69, No. 1
