Victoria Alexandra Fromkin (née Landish; May 16, 1923 – January 19, 2000) was an American linguist who taught at UCLA.
She collected more than 12,000 examples of slips of the tongue, which were analyzed in a number of scholarly publications, notably her 1971 Language[5] article and an edited volume, Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence.
Genie had spent the first 13 years of her life in severe isolation, and Fromkin and her associates hoped that her case would illuminate the process of language acquisition after the critical period.
[7][8] However, the study ended after rancorous disputes over Genie's care, and the loss of funding from the National Institute of Mental Health.
[11] In 1974, Fromkin was commissioned by the producers of the children's television series Land of the Lost to create a constructed language for a species of primitive cavemen/primates called the Pakuni.
[4] The Linguistic Society of America established the "Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for Distinguished Service"[18] award in her honor in 2001.
The following are examples of each: Fromkin theorized that slips of the tongue can occur at many levels including syntactic, phrasal, lexical or semantic, morphological, phonological.