Susan M. Ervin-Tripp
Susan Moore Ervin-Tripp (1927-2018) was an American linguist whose psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research focused on the relation between language use and the development of linguistic forms, especially the developmental changes and structure of interpersonal talk among children.[1]
Born Susan Moore Ervin on June 29, 1927 in Minneapolis, MN, she earned her undergraduate degree in Art History at Vassar College. She earned a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1955 for thesis entitled, The Verbal Behaviour of Bilinguals: The Effect of Language of Report upon the Thematic Apperception Test Stories of Adult French Bilinguals, under the supervision of Theodore Newcomb.[2] She taught at the University of California at Berkeley.[3] In her academic work she conducted research on child language acquisition and bilingualism among children and has made contributions to the fields of linguistics, psychology, child development, sociology, anthropology, rhetoric, and women's studies.[4][5]
She was a doctoral advisor of Daniel Kahneman, a 2002 Nobel Prize winner.
Ervin-Tripp was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1974.[6]
A festschrift dedicated to Ervin-Tripp was published in 1996.[7]
Selected Publications[edit]
A. Kyratzis and S. Ervin-Tripp. 1999. The development of discourse markers in peer interaction. Journal of pragmatics.
S. Ervin-Tripp. 1977. Wait for me, roller skate. Child discourse.
S. Ervin-Tripp. 1976. Is Sybil there? The structure of some American English directives. Language in society.
S.M. Ervin-Tripp. 1974. Is second language learning like the first? TESOL quarterly.
S. Ervin-Tripp. 1972. On sociolinguistic rules: Alternation and co-occurrence. Directions in sociolinguistics.
S.M. Ervin-Tripp. 1969. Sociolinguistics. Advances in experimental social psychology.
S. Ervin‐Tripp. 1964. An analysis of the interaction of language, topic, and listener. American Anthropologist.
References[edit]
- ^ Ervin-Tripp, S. M. and A. Dill (1973), "Language Acquisition And Communicative Choice: Essays", Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0831-2
- ^ Ervin, Susan M. "The Effect of Language of Report upon the Thematic Apperception Test Stories of Adult French Bilinguals". ProQuest. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Interview with Susan Ervin-Tripp" (PDF).
- ^ "Susan M. Ervin-Tripp - Publications". neurotree.org. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
- ^ "Susan M. Ervin-Tripp World Cat Identity page".
- ^ "Ervin-Tripp Guggenheim page".
- ^ Slobin, D., Gerhardt, J., Kyratzis, A., & Guo, J. 1996. Social Interaction, Social Context, and Language: Essays in Honor of Susan Ervin-Tripp. Lawrence Erlbaum.
External links[edit]
- Obiturary by Yasmin Anwar at UC Berkeley
- Ervin-Tripp's curriculum vitae
- Memoriam page at UC Berekely
- Oral History interview with Ervin-Tripp from the Berkeley Library
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