Herbert H. Clark is a psycholinguist

Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. Initial forays into psycholinguistics were largely philosophical ventures, due mainly to a lack of cohesive data on how the...

 who serves as Professor of Psychology at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. Clark is known for his theory of "common ground

Grounding in communication

Grounding in communication is a concept that has been proposed by Herbert H. Clark and Susan E. Brennan and that refers to the "mutual knowledge, mutual beliefs, and mutual assumptions" that is essential for communication between two people.- References :- See also :* Cognition* Communication*...

": individuals engaged in conversation must share knowledge in order to be understood and have a meaningful conversation (Clark, 1985). Clark's books include Semantics and Comprehension, Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, Arenas of Language Use and Using Language. After receiving a B.A. with distinction from Stanford University in 1962, Clark went to Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

 where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1964 and 1966 respectively. Additionally, in the summer of 1966, he completed his post-doctoral studies at the Linguistics Institute of UCLA.

Professional positions

• Assistant Member of the Technical Staff, Bell Telephone, Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey, Summer 1963
• Resident Visitor, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, Summer 1964-1965
• Post-doctoral Visitor, Linguistic Institute UCLA, Summer 1966
• Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 1969–1975
• Professor, Department of Psychology Stanford University 1975–present
• Chair, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 1987–1990
• Visiting Associate Professor, Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Cruz, Summer 1971
• Honorary Research Fellow, University College London, 1975–1976
• Sloan Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Summer 1978
• Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Summers 1979, 1981, and academic years 1983-84, 1990–91, 1997–98

Honors and awards

• NSF Graduate Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1963–1966
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975–1976
• Fellow, Division 3, American Psychology Association, elected 1978
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, 1978–1979
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1982
• Member, Society of Experimental Psychologists, elected 1984
• Foreign Member, Koniklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences) elected 2000
• Fellow, Cognitive Science Society, elected 2004
• Recipient, James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fellowship 2005-2006

External links

• Personal website