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morris halle psycholinguistics , neurolinguistics , language acquisition university university of arizona , university of rochester , columbia 09 december 1939 tom bever.jpg thomas bever
 thomas g. bever mit , harvard
thomas bever

thomas g. bever -lrb- born december 9 , 1939 -rrb- 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 -- 1969 , columbia university from 1970 -- 1986 -lrb- where he was involved with project nim -rrb- , and the university of rochester from 1985 -- 1995 , before accepting his current position at the university of arizona , where he has remained ever since .
bever is notable for his study of garden path sentences such as `` the horse raced past the barn fell '' , as well as his analysis by synthesis model of sentence processing , developed with david townsend .
in recent decades , bever has studied the differences in language processing between righthanders with familial handedness and righthanders without left-handed relatives .
he was a co-founder of the journal ` cognition . '
