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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,Psychology |
| Keywords | Neurolinguistics, sentence comprehension, language acquisition, artificial language learning, aesthetics |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Tucson |
| Institution | University of Arizona |
| Institute | Department of Linguistics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann | Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2010 |
Programme(s)
| 2009 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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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. |