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Herbert Clark

Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology, Emeritus

Department
Psychology
Degrees / Education
Post-Doctoral, Linguistics Institute, UCLA (1966)
PhD, Johns Hopkins University (1966)
M.A, Johns Hopkins University (1964)
B.A., Stanford University (1962)
From Wikipedia:

"Herbert H. Clark (Herb Clark) is a psycholinguist currently serving as Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. His focuses include cognitive and social processes in language use; interactive processes in conversation, from low-level disfluencies through acts of speaking and understanding to the emergence of discourse; and word meaning and word use. Clark is known for his theory of "common ground": individuals engaged in conversation must share knowledge in order to be understood and have a meaningful conversation (Clark, 1985). Together with Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs (1986), he also developed the collaborative model, a theory for explaining how people in conversation coordinate with one another to determine definite references. Clark's books include Semantics and Comprehension, Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, Arenas of Language Use and Using Language."

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