Thomas G Bever
Biographic Data
| ID | 734827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas G Bever |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas G |
| FAMILY NAME | Bever |
| SIGNATURE | BEVER T G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9900-3006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How Cognition came into being
The distributional structure of grammatical categories in speech to young children
We present a series of three analyses of young children's linguistic input to determine the distributional information it could plausibly offer to the process of grammatical category learning. Each analysis was conducted on four separate corpora from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000) of speech directed to children under 2;5. We showthat, in accord with other findings, a distributional analysis which categorizeswords based on their co-occurr…
Sentence Comprehension: The Integration of Habits and Rules
Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-connectionist. The symbolic-computational approach emphasizes the formal manipulation of symbols that underlies creative aspects of language behavior. The associative-connectionist approach captures the intuition that most behaviors consist of accumu…
Word-Monitoring Tasks Interact with Levels of Representation During Speech Comprehension
The Emperor's Psycholinguistics
Canonical and non-canonical syllable discrimination by two-day-old infants
Canonical syllables may be important units in early speech perception as well as production. Twenty infants (mean age 51 hours) (and twenty controls) were tested for their ability to discriminate between members of syllable pairs which were either canonical (pæt and tæp) or non-canonical ( pst and tsp ). A discrimination learning method was used in which syllables signalled the availability of either a recording of the mother's voice or silence –…
The psychological reality of linguistically defined gaps
Talking Minds: The Study of Language in the Cognitive Sciences
These essays by some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and psychology explore the problems involved in creating a general cognitive science that will treat language, thought, and behavior in an integrated fashion. They address the fundamental questions of the relations between linguistic structures and cognitive processes, between cognitive processes and language behavior, and between language behavior and lin…
Processing of metaphoric language: An investigation of the three-stage model of metaphor comprehension
Sensitivity to propositional units in good reading
The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetic Experience
This paper outlines a psychological theory of aesthetic experience. The theory is based upon the role of representational conflict and the natural process of resolving such conflict during mental growth in childhood. It proposes that aesthetic experience in adults re-creates the type of mental and emotional activity that is typical of childhood mental growth. Works of art provide the experience of mental growth and the emotional responses accompa…
Children use canonical sentence schemas: A crosslinguistic study of word order and inflections
The Non-Uniqueness of Linguistic Intuitions
The mental basis of linguistic intuitions is obscure, as regards their relationship both to other aspects of language behavior, such as speaking and listening, and to an hypothesized epistemological structure, such as a ‘grammar’. In the present study, we show that experimentally manipulated differences in mental state can systematically alter the linguistic intuitions which speakers render about sentences. These results indicate that the process…
Can an Ape Create a Sentence?
More than 19,000 multisign utterances of an infant chimpanzee (Nim) were analyzed for syntactic and semantic regularities. Lexical regularities were observed in the case of two-sign combinations: particular signs (for example, more ) tended to occur in a particular position. These regularities could not be attributed to memorization or to position habits, suggesting that they were structurally constrained. That conclusion, however, was invalidate…
Immediate memory for words from main and subordinate clauses at different age levels
Projection mechanisms in reading, or when the journal review process fails
Detection of a nonlinguistic stimulus is poorest at the end of a clause
Sensitivity to Phonological Universals in Children and Adolescents
La réalité psychologique des segments linguistiques
Fodor Janet Dean, Bever T.G. La réalité psychologique des segments linguistiques. In: Langages, 4e année, n°16, 1969. Psycholinguistique et grammaire générative, sous la direction de Jacques Mehler. pp. 83-90
The psychological reality of linguistically defined gaps
The distributional structure of grammatical categories in speech to young children
We present a series of three analyses of young children's linguistic input to determine the distributional information it could plausibly offer to the process of grammatical category learning. Each analysis was conducted on four separate corpora from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000) of speech directed to children under 2;5. We showthat, in accord with other findings, a distributional analysis which categorizeswords based on their co-occurr…
Sensitivity to Phonological Universals in Children and Adolescents
Processing of metaphoric language: An investigation of the three-stage model of metaphor comprehension
The Non-Uniqueness of Linguistic Intuitions
The mental basis of linguistic intuitions is obscure, as regards their relationship both to other aspects of language behavior, such as speaking and listening, and to an hypothesized epistemological structure, such as a ‘grammar’. In the present study, we show that experimentally manipulated differences in mental state can systematically alter the linguistic intuitions which speakers render about sentences. These results indicate that the process…
Detection of a nonlinguistic stimulus is poorest at the end of a clause
Immediate memory for words from main and subordinate clauses at different age levels
Word-Monitoring Tasks Interact with Levels of Representation During Speech Comprehension
The Emperor's Psycholinguistics
La réalité psychologique des segments linguistiques
Fodor Janet Dean, Bever T.G. La réalité psychologique des segments linguistiques. In: Langages, 4e année, n°16, 1969. Psycholinguistique et grammaire générative, sous la direction de Jacques Mehler. pp. 83-90
Detection of a nonlinguistic stimulus is poorest at the end of a clause
Sensitivity to Phonological Universals in Children and Adolescents
Projection mechanisms in reading, or when the journal review process fails
Can an Ape Create a Sentence?
More than 19,000 multisign utterances of an infant chimpanzee (Nim) were analyzed for syntactic and semantic regularities. Lexical regularities were observed in the case of two-sign combinations: particular signs (for example, more ) tended to occur in a particular position. These regularities could not be attributed to memorization or to position habits, suggesting that they were structurally constrained. That conclusion, however, was invalidate…
Immediate memory for words from main and subordinate clauses at different age levels
The Non-Uniqueness of Linguistic Intuitions
The mental basis of linguistic intuitions is obscure, as regards their relationship both to other aspects of language behavior, such as speaking and listening, and to an hypothesized epistemological structure, such as a ‘grammar’. In the present study, we show that experimentally manipulated differences in mental state can systematically alter the linguistic intuitions which speakers render about sentences. These results indicate that the process…
Children use canonical sentence schemas: A crosslinguistic study of word order and inflections
The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetic Experience
This paper outlines a psychological theory of aesthetic experience. The theory is based upon the role of representational conflict and the natural process of resolving such conflict during mental growth in childhood. It proposes that aesthetic experience in adults re-creates the type of mental and emotional activity that is typical of childhood mental growth. Works of art provide the experience of mental growth and the emotional responses accompa…
Sensitivity to propositional units in good reading
Processing of metaphoric language: An investigation of the three-stage model of metaphor comprehension
Talking Minds: The Study of Language in the Cognitive Sciences
These essays by some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and psychology explore the problems involved in creating a general cognitive science that will treat language, thought, and behavior in an integrated fashion. They address the fundamental questions of the relations between linguistic structures and cognitive processes, between cognitive processes and language behavior, and between language behavior and lin…
The psychological reality of linguistically defined gaps
Canonical and non-canonical syllable discrimination by two-day-old infants
Canonical syllables may be important units in early speech perception as well as production. Twenty infants (mean age 51 hours) (and twenty controls) were tested for their ability to discriminate between members of syllable pairs which were either canonical (pæt and tæp) or non-canonical ( pst and tsp ). A discrimination learning method was used in which syllables signalled the availability of either a recording of the mother's voice or silence –…
The Emperor's Psycholinguistics
Word-Monitoring Tasks Interact with Levels of Representation During Speech Comprehension
Sentence Comprehension: The Integration of Habits and Rules
Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-connectionist. The symbolic-computational approach emphasizes the formal manipulation of symbols that underlies creative aspects of language behavior. The associative-connectionist approach captures the intuition that most behaviors consist of accumu…
The distributional structure of grammatical categories in speech to young children
We present a series of three analyses of young children's linguistic input to determine the distributional information it could plausibly offer to the process of grammatical category learning. Each analysis was conducted on four separate corpora from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000) of speech directed to children under 2;5. We showthat, in accord with other findings, a distributional analysis which categorizeswords based on their co-occurr…
How Cognition came into being
Psychology (17 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Cognition (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Natural language processing (9 works) · Psycholinguistics (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Sentence (7 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works)