Melissa Bowerman

Melissa Bowerman (3 ga Afrilu, 1942 - 31 ga Oktoba, 2011) ta kasance babbar mai bincike a fannin samun harshe. Daga 1982 zuwa 2007, ta kasance babban jami'in bincike a Cibiyar Max Planck ta Psycholinguistics .

 Ilimi da aiki 
A shekara ta 1971, Bowerman ta sami digirinta na PhD a fannin ilimin halayyar jama'a daga Jami'ar Harvard, inda ta yi karatu a karkashin Roger Brown . Ta rike mukamai a Jami'ar Kansas daga 1970 har zuwa 1982, lokacin da ta shiga Cibiyar Max Planck .

A cikin fagen Samun harshe, ta ƙware a cikin dangantakar da ke tsakanin harshe da fahimta, harshe da wakilcin sararin samaniya, da harshe da wakilin taron. Jigogi masu maimaitawa a cikin aikinta sun haɗa da alaƙar da ke tsakanin ci gaban ra'ayi da ci gaban harshe, amfani da kwatancen harshe don warware abin da ke duniya da kuma yiwuwar haihuwar daga abin da aka koya, yanayin ka'idojin harshe na farko na yara, da kuma yiwu-war bayanai game da samun harshe don taimakawa yanke shawara tsakanin wasu hanyoyin da aka tsara harshe.

An zabi Bowerman a matsayin ɗan'uwan Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka a ranar 1 ga Oktoba 2011.  Wani tarin takardu don girmama ta, Routes to Language, an buga shi ta hanyar Psychology Press a cikin 2015. 

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 [Inda Aka Ɗauko Hoto da ke shafi na 9] 1973. Ci gaban haɗin kai na farko: binciken harshe na giciye tare da ambaton musamman ga Finnish. Cambridge: Jami'ar Cambridge Press.
 Choi, S., Bowerman, M., Koyon bayyana abubuwan motsi a cikin Turanci da Koriya: Tasirin takamaiman tsarin ƙamus, (1991) Cognition, 41 (1-3), shafuffuka 83-121. 
 Majid, A., Bowerman, M., Kita, S., Haun, D.B.M., Levinson, S.C., Shin harshe zai iya sake fasalin fahimta? Shari'ar sararin samaniya, (2004) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8 (3), shafuffuka 108-114. 
 Choi, S., McDonough, L., Bowerman, M., Mandler, J.M., Farko na Farko ga Takamaiman Yanayi na Yanayi a Turanci da Koriya, (1999) Ci gaban fahimta, 14 (2), shafi na 241-268. 
 Bowerman, Melissa, da Stephen C. Levinson, eds. 2001. Samun Harshe da Ci gaban Ra'ayi. Cambridge: Jami'ar Cambridge Press.
 Majid, A., Bowerman, M., Van Staden, M., Boster, J.S., Matsayi na yankewa da karya abubuwan da suka faru: Halin da ya dace, (2007) Cognitive Linguistics, 18 (2), shafuffuka 133-152. 
 Bowerman, Melissa, da Penelope Brown, eds. 2008. Halin Harshe a kan Tsarin Magana. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 2011
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1942