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Eve Clark is a Richard Lyman Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. Her research focuses on language acquisition, specifically how children learn the meanings of words and the principles behind word formation across different languages. She is currently exploring the types of pragmatic information that adults provide to small children during interactions and how these interactions shape children's ability to infer unfamiliar meanings and relate familiar and unfamiliar words. Her work examines the inferences children make regarding the 'place' of unfamiliar words, the relevant semantic domains they identify, and the conventional ways of communicating informed by adult responses and child errors in language acquisition. She is particularly interested in how conversation with expert speakers fosters language acquisition and the general role of practice and feedback in this process.
Stanford University • Stanford, California
Emeritus Faculty in the Department of Linguistics, focusing on language acquisition and semantics.
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