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.

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.