Eva Sivertsen

[3] In addition she did a postgraduate diploma in phonetics at the department of phonetics, in the University College London, where she conducted the field study for her doctoral thesis on Cockney, an accent and dialect of English, mainly spoken by working-class and lower middle-class Londoners, in Bethnal Green.

Petyt for offering a description of a dialect spoken by millions based on a sample of just four elderly women.

[6] She was the secretary of the Eighth International Congress of Linguists, held in Oslo in 1957 and edited its proceedings.

[4][6] She also worked with renowned scholars like Gordon R. Peterson and Kenneth L. Pike during her stay in abroad.

To recognize her distinguished services, she was conferred the Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav in 1982.