First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkins 65th birthday in 1988. It reflects her very special interdisciplinary interests and flair.
First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkins 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.
Part One: Phonetic and Phonological Studies
1. Creak as a Sociophonetic
Marker
2. On Feature Copying: Parameters of Tone Rules
3. Phonological
Features for Places of Articulation
4. Phonetic Universals in Consonant
Systems Part Two: Clinical and Neurolinguistic Studies
5. Abnormal Language
Acquisition and Grammar: Evidence for the Modularity of Language
6. Advances
in the Neuroanatomical Correlates of Aphasia and the Understanding of the
Neural Substrates of Language
7. The Long-term Linguistic Consequences of
Head Injury in Childhood: A Review
8. The Neurolinguistic Substrate for Sign
Language
9. Functional Levels in Normal, Intensified and Aphasic Speech
10.
William Elder (18641931): Diagram Maker and Experimentalist
11. The
Independence of Language: Evidence from a Retarded Hyperlinguistic Individual
Part Three: Other Psycholinguistic and Linguistic Studies
12. The Perfect
Speech Error
13. Free Reading and the Development of Literacy
14. The
Scarcity of Speech Errors in Hindi
15. Empiricism and Universal Grammar in
Chomskys Work
16. Linguistics and Computer Speech Recognition
17. Whats in
a name? Inferences from Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomena
18. A
Relevance-theoretic Account of Conditionals
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.
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