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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. Dr Fromkin published more than one hundred books, monographs and papers on topics concerned with phonetics, phonology, tone languages, African languages, speech errors, processing models, aphasia and the brain/mind/language interface.

Robert Rodman was a Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at North Carolina State University. His research interests included computational forensic linguistics, speech processing, and in particular, lip synchronisation and voice recognition.

Nina Hyams received her bachelor's degree in journalism from Boston University in 1973 and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in linguistics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1981 and 1983, respectively. She joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1983, where she is a professor of linguistics. Her main areas of research are childhood language development and syntax. She is author of the book LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND THE THEORY OF PARAMETERS (D. Reidel Publishers, 1986), a milestone in language acquisition research. She has also published numerous articles on the development of syntax, morphology, and semantics in children. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Utrecht and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and has given lectures throughout Europe and Japan.

Kirsten M. Hummel received her bachelor’s degree in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego, in 1973, her M.A. degree in linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1979, and her Ph.D degree in linguistics from McGill University in Montreal, in 1986. From 1974 to 1977 she taught English (EFL) in Brazzaville, Congo. From 1989 to 1990 she taught applied linguistics at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland on a Fulbright grant. She has been a professor in the Department of languages, linguistics, and translation at Laval University in Quebec City since 1986, where her main area of specialization for teaching and research is second language acquisition.