Eve Vivienne Clark

Background

Clark, Eve Vivienne was born on July 26, 1942 in Camberley, United Kingdom. Daughter of Desmond Charles and Nancy Curme. came to the United States, 1967.

Education

She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics in 1969, studying with John Lyons at the University of Edinburgh.

Career

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.

Achievements

• Eve Vivienne Clark has been listed as a noteworthy Linguistics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics

    (Hardcover; 608 numbered pages; text, glossary, bibliograp...)

  • The Lexicon in Acquisition (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

    (Eve Clark argues for the centrality of the lexicon in lan...)

  • The Acquistion of Romance, with Special Reference to French (The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition) (Chapter 7)

    (First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)

  • The Lexicon in Acquisition (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Eve V. Clark (1995-03-31)
  • The ontogenesis of meaning (Linguistische Forschungen ; Bd. 27)

Membership

Member Dutch Academy Sciences (foreign).

Connections

Married Herbert H. Clark, July 21, 1967. 1 child, Damon Alistair.

Father:

Desmond Charles Curme

Mother:

Nancy Curme

Spouse:

Herbert H. Clark

child:

Damon Alistair Clark