Origins & Early Life

Eve Vivienne Clark (born 26 July 1942) is a British-born American linguist. Clark's research focuses on first language acquisition, especially the acquisition of meaning. 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 research examines what children can learn about conventional ways to say things based on adult responses to child errors during acquisition.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

Clark 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 subsequently joined the Linguistics Department at Stanford University. She is the Richard Lyman Professor emerita in the Humanities at Stanford. Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1979) Guggenheim Fellowship (1983). Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) in 1991.

Enduring Legacy & Impact

Invited speaker in the Linguistic Society of America's inaugural Public Lectures on Language series...

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