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PhD Psychology University of Texas at Austin
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According to Wikipedia, Thomas G. Bever is a Regent's Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. He has been a leading figure in psycholinguistics, focusing on the cognitive and neurological bases of linguistic universals, among other pursuits. Bever received a B.A. in linguistics and psychology from Harvard University in 1961, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967; he studied with Noam Chomsky, George A. Miller, and Jean Piaget. He taught at Rockefeller University from 1967 to 1969, Columbia University from 1970 to 1986 , and the University of Rochester from 1985 to 1995, before accepting his current position at the University of Arizona, where he has remained ever since.

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Cerebral Dominance in Musicians and Nonmusicians (1974) (754)
The Psychology of Language (1974) (735)
Can an ape create a sentence? (1979) (572)
The Psychology of Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics and Generative Grammar (1976) (440)
Sentence Comprehension: The Integration of Habits and Rules (2001) (438)
Children use canonical sentence schemas: A crosslinguistic study of word order and inflections (1982) (424)
The psychological reality of linguistic segments (1965) (371)
The distributional structure of grammatical categories in speech to young children (2002) (285)
The relation between linguistic structure and associative theories of language learning—A constructive critique of some connectionist learning models (1988) (278)
The nonperceptual reality of the phoneme. (1970) (227)
Cognitive Capacity of Very Young Children (1967) (222)
The active use of grammar in speech perception (1966) (185)
Empty categories access their antecedents during comprehension (1988) (165)
Serial learning in the pigeon. (1979) (140)
CEREBRAL ASYMMETRIES IN HUMANS ARE DUE TO THE DIFFERENTIATION OF TWO INCOMPATIBLE PROCESSES: HOLISTIC AND ANALYTIC (1975) (130)
Some syntactic determinants of sentential complexity, II : Verb structure (1968) (122)
Robots, men, and minds (1967) (121)
An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Ability (1977) (119)
Subject Preference in the Processingof Relative Clauses in Chinese (2006) (109)
Analysis by Synthesis: A (Re-)Emerging Program of Research for Language and Vision (2010) (105)
Linguistic anaphors, levels of representation, and discourse (1988) (100)
The interaction of perceptual processes and ambiguous sentences (1973) (95)
The psychological reality of linguistically defined gaps (1989) (93)
Syntactic Structure Modifies Attention during Speech Perception and Recognition (1969) (93)
Processing of metaphoric language: An investigation of the three-stage model of metaphor comprehension (1985) (91)
Sources of Variance in an Information Processing Theory of Timing (2014) (89)
Regressions in mental development : basic phenomena and theories (1982) (89)
On the acquisition of syntax: a critique of "contextual generalization". (1965) (84)
The cognitive basis for linguistic structures1 (2013) (81)
The comprehension and verification of ambiguous sentences (1968) (79)
Harmonic structure as a determinant of melodic organization (1981) (74)
Judging the veracity of ambiguous sentences. (1970) (74)
Segmentation in cinema perception. (1976) (74)
Peripheral and cerebral asymmetries in the rat. (1997) (69)
Chinese character decoding: a semantic bias? (2010) (69)
Sensitivity to Phonological Universals in Children and Adolescents. (1975) (68)
In search of ambiguity (1967) (66)
The Non-Uniqueness of Linguistic Intuitions. (1981) (66)
Role of the striatum in language: Syntactic and conceptual sequencing (2013) (53)
Analytic processing elicits right ear superiority in monaurally presented speech (1976) (53)
Interclause relations and clausal processing (1978) (53)
Empty categories access their antecedents during comprehension: unaccusatives in Spanish: unaccusatives in Spanish (1997) (52)
WHAT MIGHT BE LEARNED FROM STUDYING LANGUAGE IN THE CHIMPANZEE? THE IMPORTANCE OF SYMBOLIZING ONESELF (1976) (52)
What Children Do in Spite of What They Know (1968) (48)
Canonical and non-canonical syllable discrimination by two-day-old infants (1992) (45)
Sentence-picture verification models as theories of sentence comprehension: A critique of Carpenter and Just (1976) (44)
What we look at when we read (1967) (40)
Listener-speaker perceived distance predicts the degree of motor contribution to speech perception. (2015) (39)
The logical and extrinsic sources of modularity. (1992) (35)
Detection of a nonlinguistic stimulus is poorest at the end of a clause (1975) (34)
Garden Path and the Comprehension of Head-Final Relative Clauses (2010) (34)
Transitional probability is not a general mechanism for the segmentation of speech (1969) (32)
Hemispheric asymmetries in the perception of musical intervals as a function of musical experience and family handedness background (1980) (32)
Talking minds : the study of language in cognitive science (1986) (30)
Spacing Printed Text to Isolate Major Phrases Improves Readability. (1991) (27)
Natural units of representation interact during sentence comprehension (1982) (27)
Linguistic Intuitions are the Result of Interactions Between Perceptual Processes and Linguistic Universals (1986) (26)
A cognitive theory of emotion and aesthetics in music. (1988) (26)
Related intuitions and the mental representation of causative verbs in adults and children (1986) (24)
Genetic Factors and Normal Variation in the Organization of Language (2013) (24)
An autonomic reflection of syntactic structure (1969) (24)
Distributional Regularities of Form Class in Speech to Young Childre (1995) (23)
The Emperor's Psycholinguistics (1998) (23)
Immediate memory for words from main and subordinate clauses at different age levels (1979) (23)
Phrase-spaced formats improve comprehension in average readers. (1992) (23)
A Biolinguistic Agenda (2008) (22)
Familial Handedness and Access to Words, Meaning, and Syntax during Sentence Comprehension (2001) (22)
In What Sense Do Pigeons Learn Concepts (2014) (21)
Is linguistics empirical? (1965) (19)
The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetic Experience (1983) (19)
Eye‐Fixation Patterns During Reading Confirm Theories of Language Comprehension (1984) (18)
The hierarchical representation of three-item sequences (1987) (17)
The Use of Higher-Level Constraints in Monitoring for a Change in Speaker Demonstrates Functionally Distinct Levels of Representation in Discourse Comprehension. (1991) (15)
Constructing Filler-Gap Dependencies in Chinese Possessor Relative Clauses (2005) (15)
Improving the Readability of Text with Automatic Phrase‐Sensitive Formating (1986) (15)
Animal cognition : proceedings of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Conference, June 2-4, 1982 (1984) (14)
Noam's Ark (2002) (14)
The time course for language acquisition in biologically distinct populations: Evidence from deaf individuals (2004) (14)
THE DEVELOPMENT FROM VOCAL TO VERBAL BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN. (1964) (13)
THE STUDY OF COMPETENCE IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (1968) (13)
Objects, Categories, and Discriminative Stimuli (2014) (10)
2 – Cerebral Lateralization, Cognitive Asymmetry, and Human Consciousness (1983) (10)
On Some Continuous Properties in Language (1981) (9)
Heritable Repression due to Paramutation in Maize (8)
Cerebral dominance in musicians and nonmusicians. 1974. (2009) (7)
Remarks on the Individual Basis for Linguistic Structures * (2008) (7)
A Dynamic Model of the Evolution of Language (2008) (7)
The Cache-Recovery System as an Example of Memory Capabilities in Clark's Nutcracker (2014) (7)
Processing Relative Clauses in Chinese: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials (2016) (7)
A Universal Account of Relative-Clause Processing in Typologically Diverse Languages (2006) (7)
The unity of consciousness and the consciousness of unity (2017) (7)
Cognitive Processes in Cebus Monkeys (2014) (6)
Sensitivity to propositional units in good reading (1984) (6)
Eye-Fixation Patterns During Reading Confirm Theories of Language Comprehension (1984) (5)
The Nature of Cerebral Dominance in Speech Behaviour of the Child (5)
Minimalist Behaviorism: The Role of the Individual in Explaining Language Universals (2009) (5)
Some sentences on our consciousness of sentences (2001) (5)
The Interaction Of Perception And Linguistic Structures: A Preliminary Investigation Of Neo-Functionalism (1974) (5)
Chapter 13. The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science (2009) (5)
The Development of Psychological Models for Speech Recognition. (1968) (5)
Leonard Bloomfield and the phonology of the Menomini language. (1967) (5)
Evidence for the Use of Verb Telicity in Sentence Comprehension (2013) (4)
Form Recognition in Pigeons (2014) (4)
DISCUSSION PAPER: SOME THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ISSUES THAT ARISE IF WE INSIST ON DISTINGUISHING LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT (1975) (4)
LINGUISTIC CAPACITY OF VERY YOUNG CHILDREN. BY BEVER, THOMAS G. AND OTHERS (2007) (4)
Working Memory and Serial Patterns (2014) (3)
Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals (2003) (3)
Regression in the Service of Development (2017) (3)
Some Issues in Animal Spatial Memory (2014) (3)
A Theory of Syntactic Interference in the Bilingual (2008) (3)
THE INDUCTION OF MENTAL STRUCTURES WHILE LEARNING TO USE SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS (2008) (3)
A left-hemisphere advantage for gesture-language signs in the dolphin (1989) (3)
Three Aspects of the Relation between Lexical and Syntactic Knowledge (2013) (2)
The biolinguistics of language universals (2013) (2)
Language as ergonomic perfection (2008) (2)
RESPONSE BIASES DO NOT ACCOUNT FOR THE EFFECT OF CLAUSE STRUCTURE ON THE PERCEPTION OF NONLINGUISTIC STIMULI (1975) (2)
Many important language universals are not reducible to processing or cognition (2016) (2)
The demons and the beast- modular and nodular kinds of knowledge (2016) (2)
Serial Position Effects and Rehearsal in Primate Visual Memory (2014) (2)
Self Reports by Rats of the Temporal Patterning of Their Behavior: A Dissociation Between Tacit Knowledge and Knowledge (2014) (2)
SERIALLEARNING IN THE PIGEON (1979) (2)
The Hippocampus as an Interface Between Cognition and Emotion (2014) (2)
The canonical form constraint: Language acquisition via a general theory of learning (2008) (1)
Projection mechanisms in reading, or when the journal review process fails (1976) (1)
Animal Intelligence: Understanding the Minds of Animals Through Their Behavioral "Ambassadors" (2014) (1)
Harmonic structure as adeterminant ofmelodic organization (1981) (1)
Children use canonical sentence sch A crmslinguistic study of word order and infl (1)
Separating similar effects of conjunction and intonation in the resolution of lexical ambiguity (2005) (1)
Cognitive Factors in Conditional Learning by Pigeons (2014) (1)
Representations in Pigeon Working Memory (2014) (1)
10 Broca and Lashley Were Right : Cerebral Dominance Is an Accident of Growth (2006) (1)
Genetic factors in the cerebral asymmetries for language and music (2012) (1)
The Biological Nature of Human Language (2010) (1)
Contributions of Animal Memory to the Interpretation of Animal Learning (2014) (1)
All language understanding is a psycholinguistic guessing game (2009) (1)
The specificity of language skills (1974) (1)
A discourse on the study of jurisprudence and the civil law : being an introduction to a course of lectures (1964) (1)
Optical Differentiation of Amoebic Ectoplasm and Endoplasmic Flow (1)
Chapter four. Lessons from psycolinguistics for second language learning (2012) (0)
Books Received/Livres reçus (1978) (0)
11. Biolinguistics today and Platonism yesterday (2009) (0)
ESD-TR-67-633 THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOG ICAL MODELS FOR SPEECH RECOG (2010) (0)
ANALYTIC PROCESSING ELICITS RIGHT EAR SUPERIORITY IN MONAURALLY PRESENTED SPEECH1 (1975) (0)
The Aesthetics of Visual Form The Golden Section Rectangle Enhances Depth Perception (2016) (0)
Empirical Studies of Linguistic Universals in Very Young Children (1969) (0)
The Emperor ' s Psycholinguistics 1 (2003) (0)
The Ecology and Brain of Two-Handed Bipedalism: An Analytic, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Assessment (2014) (0)
Do Pigeons Decompose Stimulus Compounds (2014) (0)
A general problem solving model resolves the two contemporary conflicting approaches to L1 acquisition of syntax (2014) (0)
OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR SERIAL LEARNING IN THE PIGEON R . 0 (2005) (0)
The fiimitive Nature of Children's Relational Concep (2007) (0)
Linguistics. Noam's Ark. (2002) (0)
S CIENCE ' S C OMP A SS (2002) (0)
Editorial (1976) (0)
A parsimonious method for generating syntactic structure (2020) (0)
Number 4421 Can an Ape Create a Sentence ? (2005) (0)
Quantification , Conservation , and Nativism Reply (2006) (0)
THE STUDY OF COMPETENCE IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 1 [ ' (2006) (0)
Biolinguistics today and Platonism yesterday (2008) (0)
Editorial Board (1987) (0)
Reason and un-reason (1975) (0)
How Cognition came into being (2021) (0)
The Aesthetics of Visual Form (2016) (0)
Some Problems for a Theory of Working Memory (2014) (0)

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