Eve Vivienne Clark

Richard W. Lyman Professor of Humanities

Department of Linguistics Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg 460 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2150 USA

EM: eclark@stanford.edu Tel. (650) 723-4284 (msgs) Fax (650) 723-5666

Position: Professor of Linguistics

Research interests
I am interested in first language acquisition, the acquisition of meaning, acquisitional principles in word-formation compared across children and languages, and general semantic and pragmatic issues in the lexicon and in language use. I am currently working on the kinds of pragmatic information adults offer small children as they talk to them, and on children's ability to make use of this information as they make inferences about unfamiliar meanings and about the relations between familiar and unfamiliar words. I am interested in the inferences children make about where to 'place' unfamiliar words, how they identify the relevant semantic domains, and what they can learn about conventional ways to say things based on adult responses to child errors during acquisition. All of these 'activities' involve children and adults placing information in common ground as they interact. Another current interest of mine is the construction of verb paradigms: how do children go from using a single verb form to using forms that contrast in meaning -- on such dimensions as person, number, and tense? How do they learn to distinguish the meanings of homophones? To what extent do they make use of adult input to discern the underlying structure of the system?

Education	Publications	Recent Papers
Recent Talks	Teaching

The Lexicon in Acquisition Cambridge 1993
First Language Acquisition Cambridge 2016