Prof. Dr. Thomas G. Bever

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,Psychology
KeywordsNeurolinguistics, sentence comprehension, language acquisition, artificial language learning, aesthetics

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityTucson
InstitutionUniversity of Arizona
InstituteDepartment of Linguistics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Thomas PechmannInstitut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2010

Programme(s)

2009Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Bever is one of the pioneers in the broad field of Cognitive Science. He has made groundbreaking contributions to topics as diverse as theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, animal cognition, neuroscience, and the psychology of music. During his stay in Germany, he intends to further pursue his work on the neuropsychology of language processing and, in particular, on the the role of telicity in sentence parsing.