Elizabeth Bates
| Elizabeth Bates | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 26, 1947 Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | December 13, 2003 (aged 56) San Diego, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Pancreatic cancer |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater |
Saint Louis University University of Chicago |
| Known for | Research on the cognitive, neural, and social bases of language |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields |
Language acquisition Cognitive science Cognitive neuroscience |
| Institutions |
University of California, San Diego University of Colorado |
Elizabeth Bates (July 26, 1947 – December 13, 2003) was a Professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. She was an internationally renowned expert and leading researcher in child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and the neurological bases of language, and she authored 10 books and over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these subjects. Bates was well known for her assertion that linguistic knowledge is distributed throughout the brain and is subserved by general cognitive and neurological processes.
Bates earned a B.A. from St. Louis University in 1968, and an M.A. and PhD in human development from the University of Chicago in 1971 and 1974, respectively.
She was employed as a tenure-track professor at the University of Colorado from 1974-1981 before joining the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, where she worked until 2003. Bates was one of the founders of the Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD, the first department of its kind in the USA. She was also the director of the UCSD Center of Research in Language and the co-director of the San Diego State University/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communication Disorders. Bates also served as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976-1977 and at the National Research Council Institute of Psychology in Rome on a regular basis.
On December 13, 2003, Elizabeth Bates died, after a year-long struggle with pancreatic cancer. Over the course of more than thirty years, Bates established herself as a world leader in a number of fields – child development, language acquisition, aphasia research, cross-linguistic research, and adult psycho linguistics. The Elizabeth Bates Graduate Research Fund was established at UCSD in her memory to assist graduate students' research. She is survived by her husband and daughter, George and Julia Carnevale.
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