Eve V. Clark

Eve V. Clark (born 26 July 1942) is a British-born American linguist. She earned her PhD in Linguistics in 1969, studying with John Lyons at the University of Edinburgh. She worked on the Language Universals Project at Stanford with Joseph Greenberg, and two years later, joined the Linguistics Department at Stanford University. She is currently the Richard Lyman Professor in the Humanities at Stanford.

Clark's research focuses on first language acquisition, especially the acquisition of meaning. She has done extensive observational and experimental research. She has also worked on the acquisition and use of word-formation, including comparative studies of English and Hebrew in children and adults. Some of her current studies examine what children can learn about conventional ways to say things based on adult responses to child errors during acquisition. She has studied the pragmatics of coining words.

Awards

Eve V. Clark was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 1979.

She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983.

She was elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) in 1991.

She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003.

She was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in 2007.

Publications

Clark H.H. and E.V. Clark (1977). Psychology and Language.

Clark E.V. (1979). Ontogenesis of Meaning.

Clark, E. and H.H. Clark (1979). "When nouns surface as verbs," Language 55: 767–811.

Clark E.V. and R.A. Berman (1984). "Structure and use in the acquisition of word formation," Language 60, 542-590.

Clark E.V. (1985). Acquisition of Romance, with special reference to French.

Clark E.V. (1993). The Lexicon in Acquisition.

Clark E.V. (2003). First Language Acquisition.

External links

Faculty home page at Stanford: http://web.stanford.edu/~eclark/