Dr. Victoria Fromkin was Professor of Linguistics and a member of the faculty of the University of California, Department of Linguistics from 1966 until her death in 2000. She served as its chair from 1972-1976. Professor Fromkin published more than 100 books, monographs and papers on topics concerned with phonology, phonetics, tone languages, speech errors, processing models, African languages, aphasia and the brain/mind/language interface.