Language, Speech and Mind

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

• 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 (1864–1931): 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 Chomsky’s Work 16. Linguistics and Computer Speech Recognition 17. What’s in a name? Inferences from Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomena 18. A Relevance-theoretic Account of Conditionals