Papers

Recent Papers (Since 2008)

Sammler, D., Hancock, R., Friederici, A. and Bever, T.G., (In preparation) Genetic factors in the cerebral asymmetries for language and music.
Hancock, R., Friederici, A., Lohman, G., Chan, S-h, Ryan, L. and Bever, T.G. (In preparation) Low frequency networks for conceptual vs. syntactic sequencing and familial sinistrality.
Lin, C and Bever, T. G. (Under requested revision) Chinese is no exception: Subject-extracted relative clauses are easier to process across languages. (Cognition).
Bever, T.G., Medeiros, D. & Piattelli-palmarini, M. (in press) Many important language universals are not reducible to processing or cognition. Brain and Behavioral Sciences.
Bever, T.G. (In press). The unity of consciousness and the consciousness of unity. In Almeida, R. and Gleitman, L. The mind and its thoughts. Oxford University Press. (pdf)
Nicholas, C., & Bever, T.G. (2016) The Aesthetics of Visual Form: The Golden Section Rectangle Enhances Depth Perception. Language and Cognition. (pdf)
Sun, Xiaoxia, Hancock R. & Bever, T.G (2014) Is Subject Relatives Preference Universal? – ERP evidence from Chinese relative clause processing. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics (pdf)
D’Ausilio, A., Berry, J., Bever, T.G., and Fadiga, L. (2013) Listener-speaker articulatory distance predicts the degree of motor contribution to speech perception. Cerebral Cortex. (pdf)
O’Bryan, E. L., Folli, R., Harley, H., & Bever, T. G. (2013) Event structure affects the comprehension of structurally ambiguous sentences. in Roberto Almeida & Christina Manouilidou (Eds) Verb concepts. Oxford University Press (pdf)
Bever, T.G., (1970, 2013) The Cognitive Basis for Linguistic Structures. In Laka, I. ,Sanz, M. and Tanenhaus, M. (Eds), Cognition and Language: enduring themes. Oxford University Press. (pdf)
Hancock, R. and Bever, T.G. (2013) Genetic factors and normal variation in the organization of language. Biolinguistics. Vol. 7, pp. 75-95. (pdf)
Bever, T.G (2013, 2015), The biolinguistics of language universals: The next years. In Montserrat Sanz, Itziar Laka, Michael K. Tanenhaus (Eds,) Language Down the Garden Path: The Cognitive and Biological Basis of Linguistic Structures, Oxford University Press. Pp. 235-405. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., (2012) Three Aspects of the Relation between Lexical and Syntactic Knowledge. in Berwick, R. and Piatelli-Palmarini, (Eds.), Rich Language from Poor Inputs. Oxford University Press pp. 184-193 (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (2012) Two Lessons from Psycholinguistics for Second Language Learning. In Sanz, M. and Gonzales J, (Eds.) Advances In The Sciences Of Language And Their Application To Second Language Teaching. Cambridge Scholars Press. Pp. 89-107 (pdf)
Chan, S.-h., Ryan, T. and Bever, T.G., (2011) Role of the striatum in language: Syntactic and conceptual sequencing. Brain & Language (2011), doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2011.11.005 (pdf) (pdf)
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Kenneth Wexler, Robert C. Berwick, Cedric Boeckx, Lyle Jenkins, Juan Uriagereka, Karin Stromswold, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Heidi Harley, Andrew Wedel, James McGilvray, Elly van Gelderen & Thomas G. Bever. 2010. The biological nature of human language. Biolinguisics 4. pp 4-34.
Bever, T.G., and Peoppel, D. (2010) Analysis by synthesis: a current analysis and synthesis. Biolinguistics 4.2-3, pp 172-199 (pdf)
Lin, Chien-Jer Charles & Bever, Thomas G. (2010). “Garden Path in the Processing of Head-Final Relative Clauses.” In Hiroko Hashimoto, Jerry Packard, & Yuki Hirose (eds.) Processing and Producing Head-Final Structures. pp. 314-342. Springer Verlag. (pdf)
Williams, Clay and Bever, T.G. (2010) Chinese Character Decoding: a Semantic Bias. Journal of Reading and Writing, 23, pp 589-695 (pdf)
Bever, T.G., (2009) All language comprehension is a psycholinguistic guessing game: explaining the still small voice. In, Anders, P. (Ed), Issues in the present and future of reading. Pp. 249-281 Routledge (pdf)
Hancock, R., and Bever, T.G. (2009), The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science. In E. vanGelderen Ed., Syntactic Change. John Benjimans, pp.215-241 (pdf)
Bever, T. G., (2009) Minimalist Behaviorism: the role of the individual in explaining language universals. In Christiansen, M. Collins & Edelman, S. (Eds.) Language Universals (Oxford University Press). Pp. 270-298 (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (2009). “Biolinguistics today and Platonism yesterday”. In Time and Again, Lewis, William D., Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley and Scott O. Farrar (eds.), pp. 227–232. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (2009). Remaks on the individual basis for linguistic structures. In Piatelli, M. Of minds and language: the Basque country encounter with Noam Chomsky. Oxford University Press. Pp. 278-295. (pdf)
Hauser, M. and Bever, T.G. (2008) Biolinguistics and the Science of Language, SCIENCE: 322 14, pp. 1057 – 1059. (pdf)
Lin, C-J. C., and Bever, T. G. (2008). Subject preference in the processing of relative clauses in Chinese. In Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon, 254-260. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (pdf)
Piatelli-Palmarini, M., Hancock, R. & Bever, T.G., (2008) Comentary Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31:530-531 Cambridge University Press
Bever, T.G., (2008) The canonical form constraint: language acquisition via a general theory of learning. In Guo et al, Cross-linguistic approaches to the psychology of language. (Oxford University Press) pp.475-492 (pdf)

Papers Before 2008

Psychology and Cognitive Science

Bever, T.G. (1992). The demons and the beast - Modular and nodular kinds of knowledge. In R. Ronan & N. Sharkey (Eds.), Connectionist approaches to natural language processing. Lawrence Erlbaum (UK). (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1988). The psychological reality of grammar: a student’s eye view of cognitive science. In W. Hirst (Ed.), The making of cognitive science Cambridge University Press. (pdf)
Lachter, J., & Bever, T.G. (1988). The relation between linguistic structure and associative theories of language learning–A constructive critique of connectionist learning models. Cognition, 28, 195-247. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1987). The aesthetic basis for cognitive structures. In W. Brand & R. Harnish, (Eds.), The representation of knowledge and belief (pp. 314-356). University of Arizona Press. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1984). The road from behaviorism to rationalism. In H.L. Roitblat, T.G. Bever, & H.S. Terrace (Eds.) Animal cognition (pp. 61-73). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1982). Some implications of the non-specific bases of language. In L. Gleitman, L. and E. Wanner (Eds.), Language development - the state of the art (pp. 429-449). Cambridge University Press. (pdf)
Katz, J.J., & Bever, T.G. (1976). The fall and rise of empiricism. In T.G. Bever, J.J. Katz, & D.T. Langendoen (Eds.), An integrated theory of linguistic ability. New York: T.Y. Crowell Press. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1975). Some theoretical and empirical issues that arise if we insist on distinguishing language and thought. In D. Aaronson & F. Rieber (Eds.), Developmental psycholinguistics and communication disorders. New York Academy of Science, 263. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1974). The psychology of language and structuralist investigations of nativism. In G. Harmon, (Ed.), On Noam Chomsky: Critical essays (pp. 146-164). Anchor Press.
Bever, T.G. (1970). The cognitive basis for linguistic structures. In R. Hayes (Ed.), Cognition and language development (pp. 277-360). New York: Wiley & Sons, Inc. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Fodor, J.A., & Garrett, M. (1968). A formal limitation of associationism. T.R. Dixon & D.L. Horton (Eds.), Verbal behavior and general behavior theory. Prentice-Hall, Inc. (pdf)
Mehler, J., & Bever, T.G. (1968). The study of competence in cognitive psychology. International Journal of Psychology, 1968, 3(4), 273-280.
Mehler, J., & Bever, T.G. (1968). Quantification, conservation, and nativism: Science, 162, 979-981.

Cerebral Dominance and Neurolinguistics

Townsend, D.J., Carrithers, C., & Bever, T.G. (2001). Familial Handedness and Access to Words, Meaning, and Syntax during Sentence Comprehension. Brain and Language, 78, 308-331. (pdf)
LaMendola, N. and Bever, T.G. (1997). Peripheral and Cerebral Asymmetries in the Rat. Science, Vol. 278, 17 October 1997, pp.483-486. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Carrithers, C., Cowart, W., & Townsend, D.J. (1989). Language processing and familial handedness. In A. Galaburda (Ed.), From neurons to reading. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Carrithers, C., & Townsend, D.J. (1987). A tale of two brains -or- The sinistral quasimodularity of language. In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Cognitive Science Society Meetings (pp. 764-773), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1983). Cerebral lateralization, cognitive asymmetry, and human consciousness. In E. Perecman and J. Brown (Eds.), Cognitive processing in the right hemisphere (19-39). New York: Academic Press, New York. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1980). Broca and Lashley were right: cerebral dominance is an accident of growth. In D. Kaplan, & N. Chomsky, (Eds.), Biology and language (186-232). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (pdf)
Kellar, L.A., & Bever, T.G. (1980). Hemispheric asymmetries in the perception of musical intervals as a function of musical experience and family handedness background. Brain and Language, 10, 24-38. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1975). Cerebral asymmetries in humans are due to the differentiation of two incompatible processes: Holistic and analytic. In D. Aaronson, & R. Rieber, R. (Eds.), Developmental psycholinguistics and communication disorders, New York Academy of Sciences, 263, 76-86. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Hurtig, R., & Handel, A. (1976). Analytic processing elicits right ear superiority in monaurally presented speech. Neuropsychologia, 14, 175-181. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & Chiarello, R.J. (1974). Cerebral dominance in musicians and nonmusicians. Science, 185, 137-139. Reprinted as a “classic article” in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry, 2008 (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1971). The nature of cerebral dominance in speech behaviour of the child and adult. In E. Ingram & R. Huxley (Eds.), Mechanisms of language acquisition (pp 231-261). New York: Academic Press. (pdf)

Comparative

Bever, Thomas and Montalbetti, Mario. (2002). Noam’s Ark. Science, VOL 298, 1565-1566. (pdf)
O’Connor, K.N., Roitblat, H.L., & Bever, T.G. (1983). Auditory sequence complexity and hemispheric asymmetry of function in rats. In H.L. Roitblat (Ed.), Studies in animal behavior. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. (pdf)
Roitblat, H.L., Bever, T.G., Harley, H.E., & Helweg, D.A. (1991). Online choice and the representation of serially structured stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. Vol 17 (1), Jan, p. 55-67 (pdf)
Roitblat, H.L., Scopatz, R.A., & Bever, T.G. (1987). The hierarchical representation of three-item sequences. Animal Learning and Behavior, 15(2), 179-192. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Straub, R.O., Terrace, H.S., & Townsend, D.J. (1980). The comparative study of serially integrated behavior in humans and animals. In P. Jusczyk, & R. Klein, R. (Eds.), The nature of thought: Essays in honor of D.O. Hebb. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (pdf)
Terrace, H.S., Petitto, L. A., Sanders, R. J., & Bever, T. G. (1980). On the grammatical capacity of apes. In K. Nelson (Ed.), Children’s Language, Volume 2 Gardner Press, pp. 371-495,
Terrace, H.S., Pettito, L.A., Sanders, R.J., & Bever, T.G. (1979). Can an ape create a sentence? Science, 206, 891-902. (pdf)
Straub, R.O., Seidenberg, M.S., Bever, T.G., & Terrace H.S. (1979). Serial learning in the pigeon. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 32, 137-148, 1979.
Terrace, H.S., & Bever, T.G. (1976). What might be learned from studying language in a chimpanzee? The importance of symbolizing oneself. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 280, 579-588 (pdf)

Psychology

Cognitive and Language Development

Ross, D. S., & Bever, T. G. (2004). The time course for language acquisition in biologically distinct populations: Evidence from deaf individuals. Brain & Language, Vol. 89, 115-121. (pdf)
Mintz, T., Newport, E., & Bever, T.G. (2002). The distributional structure of grammatical categories in speech to young children. Journal of Cognitive Science. Vol. 26/4, pp 393-425. (pdf)
Aslin, Woodward, LaMendola & Bever (1996). Models of word segmentation in fluent maternal speech to infants. In J.L. Morgan & K. Demuth (eds.), Signal to Syntax. Mahwah, NJ: LEA (pp. 117-134). (pdf)
Mintz, T., Newport, E. and Bever, T.G., Distribution-based discovery of lexical categories in motherese. (1995). In the proceedings of the New England Linguistic Society.
Bever, T.G. (1992). The Logical and Extrinsic Sources of Modularity in M. Gunnar & M. Maratsos (Eds.) Modularity and Constraints in Language and Cognition. Vol. 25 of the Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, 1992. Earlbaum. (pdf)
Moon, C., Bever, B.T., & Fifer, W.P. (1992) Canonical and noncanonical syllable discrimination by 2-day-old infants. Journal of Child Language. Volume 19, Issue 01, pp 1-17 (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & Hansen, R.E. (1988). The induction of mental structures while learning to use symbolic systems. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of The Cognitive Science Society, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. (pdf)
Gergely, G., & Bever, T.G. (1986). Relatedness intuitions and the mental representation of causative verbs in adults and children. Cognition, 23, 211-277. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1982). Regression in the service of development. In Bever et al. (Eds.), Regression in child development (pp 153-188). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (pdf)
Slobin, D.I., & Bever, T.G. (1982). Children use canonical sentence schemas: A crosslinguistic study of word order and inflections. Cognition, 12, pp. 229-265. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1981). Normal acquisition processes explain the critical period for language learning. In K.C. Diller (Ed.), Individual differences and universals in language learning aptitude (pp. 176-198). Rowley, MA: Newbury House Pub., Inc. (pdf)
Townsend, D.J., Ottaviano, D. & Bever, T.G. (1979). Immediate Memory for Words from Main and Subordinate Clauses at Different Age Levels. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 8(1), pp. 83-101, 1979. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1975). Psychologically real grammar emerges because of its role in language acquisition. In D.P. Dato (Ed.), Developmental psycholinguistics: Theory and applications (pp. 63-75). Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. (pdf)
Pertz, D.L., & Bever, T.G. (1975). Sensitivity to phonological universals in children and adolescents. Language, 51, 149-162. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1970). The comprehension and memory of sentences with temporal relations. In S. Levelt, S.& G. Flores d’Arcais (Eds.), Advances in psycholinguistics (pp. 312-316). North Holland.
Bever, T.G., Mehler, J., & Epstein, J. (1968). What children do in spite of what they know. Science, 162, 921-924. (pdf)
Mehler, J., & Bever, T.G. (1967). Cognitive capacity of very young children. Science, 141, 141-142. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Fodor, J.A., & Weksel, W. (1965). On the acquisition of syntax: a critique of contextual generalization. Psychological Review, 72, 467-482. (pdf)
Bullowa, M., Jones, L.B., & Bever, T.G. (1964). The development from vocal to verbal behavior in children. (Presented at SSRC Conference on First Language Learning, 1961). In U. Bellugi & R. Brown (Eds.), Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 29, 101-11

Psycholinguistics

Jackson, S.R., Townsend, D.J., and Bever, T.G. (2005) Separating similar effects of conjunction and intonation in the resolution of lexical ambiguity. Studia Linguistica 59(2/3), pp.259 (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & Townsend, D.J., (2001). Some sentences on our consciousness of sentences. In R. Dupoux (Ed.), Language, Brain and Cognitive Development. Pp. 145-155. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. (pdf)
Townsend, D.J., Hoover, M., & Bever, T.G. (2000). Word Monitoring Tasks Interact With Levels Of Representation During Speech Comprehension, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 265-274.
Bever, T.G., Sanz, M., & Townsend, D.J. (1998). The Emperor’s Psycholinguistics. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1998. (pdf)
Bever, Thomas G., (1996). Experimental psycholinguistics: Then, now and thence. In Willem J.M. Levelt (Ed.), Advanced Psycholinguistics, (pp.7-16). Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Townsend, D.J., & Bever, T.G. (1991). The use of higher-level constraints in monitoring for a change in speaker demonstrates functionally distinct levels of representation in discourse comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes, 6(1), 49-77.
Townsend, D.J., & Bever, T.G. (1989). Expertise and constraints in interactive sentence processing. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
McElree, B., & Bever, T.G. (1989). The psychological reality of linguistically defined gaps. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research: Special Issue on Sentence Processing. (pdf)
Cloitre, M., & Bever, T.G. (1988). Linguistic anaphors, levels of representation, and discourse. Language and Cognitive Processes, 3(4). 293-322. (pdf)
Gerken, L.A., & Bever, T.G. (1986). Linguistic intuitions are the result of interactions between perceptual processes and linguistic universals. Cognitive Science, 10, 457-476. (pdf)
Janus, R.A., & Bever, T.G. (1985). Processing of metaphoric language: an investigation of the 3-stage model of metaphor comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 14(5), 473-489. (pdf)
Townsend, D.J., & Bever, T.G. (1982). Natural units of representation interact during sentence comprehension. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21, 688-703. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & Carroll, J.M. (1981). On some continuous properties in language. In T. Myers, J. Laver, & J. Anderson (Eds.), The cognitive representation of speech (225-234). North-Holland. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & Townsend, D.J. (1979). Perceptual mechanisms and formal properties of main and subordinate clauses. In W. Cooper, W. & E.C.T Walker, E.C.T., (Eds.), Sentence processing: Psycholinguistic Studies Presented to Merrill Garrett. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (pdf)
Tanenhaus, M.K., Carroll, J.M., & Bever, T.G. (1976). Sentence-picture verification models as theories of sentence comprehension: A critique of Carpenter and Just. Psychological Review, 83, 310-317.
Carroll, J. & Bever, T.G. (1978). Sentence comprehension: a case study in the relation of knowledge and perception. In Carterette & Friedman (Eds.), Handbook of perception, Vol. 7, (pp. 299-317). (pdf)
Carroll, J.M., Tanenhaus, M.K., & Bever, T.G. (1978). The perception of relations: the interaction of structural, functional, and contextual factors in the segmentation of sentences. In W.J.M. Levelt and G. Flores d’Arcais (Eds.), Studies in the perception of language (pp. 187-218). New York: Wiley. ([pdf][articles/carroll1978.pdf])
Townsend, D., & Bever, T.G. (1978). Interclause relations and clausal processing. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 17, 509-521. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Garrett, M.R., & Hurtig, R. (1976). Projection mechanisms in reading, or when the journal review process fails. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 5, 215-226.
Bever, T.G., & Hurtig, R.R. (1975). Detection of a non-linguistic stimulus is poorest at the end of a clause. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 4, 1-7. (pdf)
Bever, T. (1973). Serial position and response biases do not account for the effect
of syntactic structure on the location of brief noises during sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2, 287-288.
Bever, T.G. (1973). Perceptions, thought and language. In R.O. Freedle & J.B. Carroll (Eds.), Language comprehension and the acquisition of knowledge. Washington, D.C.: V.H. Winston & Sons, Inc., 99-112.
Bever, T.G., Garrett, M.F., & Hurtig, R. (1973). The interaction of perceptual processes and ambiguous sentences. Memory and Cognition, 1, 277-386. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1972). The integrated study of language behaviour. In (pdf) Morton, J. (Ed.), Language: Biological and social factors (159-206). Logos Press.
Savin, H.B., & Bever, T.G. (1970). The nonperceptual reality of the phoneme. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 9, 295-302. (pdf)
Carey, P., Mehler, J., & Bever, T.G. (1970). Judging the veracity of an ambiguous sentence. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 9, 243-254. (pdf)
Mehler, J., Carey, P., & Bever, T.G. (1970). When do we compute all the interpretations of ambiguous sentences? In G. D’Arcais, G. & W. Levelt (Eds.), Advances in psycholinguistics (pp. 201-259). North Holland Publications.
Abrams, K., & Bever, T.G. (1969). Syntactic structure modifies attention during speech perception and recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 21, 280-290. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Kirk, R., & Lackner, J. (1969). An autonomic reflection of syntactic structure. Neuropsychologia, 7, 23-28. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Lackner, J.R., & Kirk, R. (1969). The underlying structures of sentences are the primary units of immediate speech processing. Perception and Psychophysics, 5, 225-234. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Lackner, J.R., & Stolz, W. (1969). Transitional probability is not a general mechanism for the segmentation of speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 79, 387-394. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1968). Associations to stimulus-response theories of language. in T.R. Dixon & D.L. Horton (Eds.), Verbal behavior and general behavior theory (478-494). Prentice-Hall, Inc. (pdf)
Fodor, J.A., Garrett, M., & Bever, T.G. (1968). Some syntactic determinants of sentential complexity, II: Verb structure. Perception and Psychophysics, 3, 453-461. (pdf)
Foss, D., Bever, T.G., & Silver, M. (1968). The comprehension and verification of ambiguous sentences. Perception and Psychophysics, 4, pp. 304-306. (pdf)
MacKay, D.G., & Bever, T.G. (1967). In search of ambiguity. Perception and Psychophysics, 2, 193-200. (pdf)
Garrett, M., Bever, T.G., & Fodor, J.A. (1966). The active use of grammar in speech perception. Perception and Psychophysics, 1, 30-32. (pdf)
Fodor, J.A., & Bever, T.G. (1965). The psychological reality of linguistic segments. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 4, 414 - 420. (pdf)

Reading

Zhenqian, Liu, Bever, Thomas G. (2005) An experimental study of the function of syntactic analysis in reading comprehension. Foreign Language Teaching and Research. (Chinese English Language Association Journal). Pp. 44-67. (This paper won first prize for the best education research article in china, 2003-4).
Jandreau, S. and Bever, T.G. (1992) Phrase-spaced formats improve comprehension in average readers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 77, 143 -146.
Bever, T. G., Jandreau, S., Burwell, R. , Kaplan, R., & Zaenan, A. (1990). Spacing printed text to isolate major phrases improves readability. Visible Language, 25, 74–87. (pdf)
Townsend, D.J., Carrithers, C., & Bever, T.G. (1987). Listening and reading processes in college and middle school-age readers. In R. Horowitz, & S.J. Samuels (Eds.), Comprehending oral and written language (pp. 217-242). New York: Academic Press.
Jandreau, S.M., Muncer, S.J., & Bever, T.G. (1986). Improving the readability of text with automatic phrase-sensitive formatting. British Journal of Educational Technology, 17, 128-133.
Carrithers, C., & Bever, T.G. (1984). Eye-fixation patterns during reading confirm theories of language comprehension. Cognitive Science, 8, 157-172. (pdf)
Muncer, S.J., & Bever, T.G. (1984). Sensitivity to propositional units in good reading. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 13, 275-279.
Bever, T.G., & Bower, T.G.R. (1970). How to read without listening. In M. Lester, M. (Ed.), Readings in applied transformation grammar, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 305-314.
Mehler, J., Bever, T.G., & Carey, P. (1967). What we look at when we read. Perception and Psychophysics, 2, 213-218. (pdf)
Aesthetics
Bever, T.G. (1988). A cognitive theory of emotion and aesthetics in music. Psychomusicology, 7, 165-175. (pdf)
Lasher, M.D., Carroll, J.M., & Bever, T.G. (1983). The cognitive basis of aesthetic experience. Leonardo, 16, 196-199. (pdf)
Tan, N., Aiello, R., & Bever, T.G. (1981). Harmonic structure as a determinant of melodic organization. Memory and Cognition, 9, pp. 533-539 (pdf)
Carroll, J., & Bever, T.G. (1976). Segmentation in cinema perception. Science, 191, 1053-1054 (pdf)

LINGUISTICS

Bever, T.G. (2003). Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals. In Carnie, A, Harley, H., and Willie, M., (Eds.) Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar. John Benjamins Press, 333-351. (pdf)
Sanz, M. & Bever, T.G. (2001). A Theory of Syntactic Interface in the Bilingual. In J. Nicol (Ed.), One Mind, Two Languages, pp 158 - 179. Blackwell Publishers. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & Sanz, M. (1997). Empty Categories Access their Antecedents DuringCompre- hension: Unaccusatives in Spanish. Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 28, Number 1, Winter 1997, 69-91. (pdf)
Sanz, M., Bever, T.G., & Laka, I. (1992). Linguistics and psycholinguistics of unaccusativity in spanish. In Proceedings of the 1991 Meeting of the New England Linguistic Society. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., Straub, K., Shenkman, K., Kim, J.J., & Carrithers, C. (1990) The psychological reality of NP-trace. In Proceedings of the 1989 Meeting of the New England Linguistic Society. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & McElree, B. (1988). Empty categories access their antecedents during comprehension. Linguistic Inquiry, 19, 35-43. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1984). Linguistics and its relation to other disciplines. In E. Machlup (Ed.), Handbook of information sciences, Wiley, 1984, pp. 158-179.
Carroll, J.M., Bever, T.G., & Pollack, C.R. (1981). The non-uniqueness of linguistic intuitions. Language, 57, No. 2, 368-383. (pdf)
Bever T.G., Carroll, J.M., & Hurtig, R. (1976). Analogy or ungrammatical sequences that are utterable and comprehensible are the origins of new grammars in language acquisition and linguistic evolution. In T.G. Bever, J.J. Katz & D.T. Langendoen (Eds.), An integrated theory of linguistic ability (pp. 149-182). New York: T.Y. Crowell Press. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1975). Functional explanations require independently motivated functional theories. In R. Grossman, J. San & T. Vance (Eds.), Papers from the parasession on functionalism (pp. 580-635), Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1974). The interaction of perception and linguistic structures: a preliminary investigation of neo-functionalism. In T.A. Seboek (Ed.), Current trends in linguistics (1159-1233). The Hague: Mouton. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1974). The ascent of the specious or there’s a lot we don’t know about mirrors. In D. Cohen (Ed.), Explaining linguistic phenomena (173-200). New York: Hemisphere Publishing Corporation. (pdf)
Langendoen, D.T., & Bever, T.G. (1973). Can a not unhappy man be called a not sad one? In S.R. Anderson & P. Kiparsky (Eds.), A festschrift for Morris Halle, (392-409). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1972). The limits of intuition. Foundations of Language, 8, 411-412.
Bever, T.G., & Langendoen, T. (1972). The interaction of perception and grammar in linguistic change. In R. Stockwell & R. MacCaulay (Eds.), Historical linguistics in the perspective of transformational theory (32-95), Indiana University Press. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & Langendoen, T. (1971). A dynamic model of the evolution of language. Linguistic Inquiry, 2. (Reprinted in T.G. Bever, J.J. Katz & D.T. Langendoen (Eds.), An integrated theory of linguistic ability. New York: T.Y. Crowell, Inc., 1976, pp. 115-147. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & Rosenbaum, P. (1970). Some lexical structures and their empirical validity. In Jacobs and Rosenbaum (Eds.), Readings in English syntax, Blaisdell. Also in French in a special issue of Languages, 1970, 3-50. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1970). The influence of speech performance on linguistic structure. In W. Levelt & G. Flores d’Arcais (Eds.), Advances in psycholinguistics (pp 21-50), North-Holland. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & Ross, J.R. (1965). Underlying structures in discourse. Proceedings of the Congress on Computer-Related Semantic Analysis, Las Vegas.
Bever, T.G., Fodor, J.A., & Weksel, W. (1965). Is linguistics empirical? Psychological Review, 72, 493-500. Reprinted in L.A. Jakobovits, A. Leon, & M.S. Murray (Eds.), Readings in the psychology of language, New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1963). The formal justification and descriptive role of variables in phonology.
Quarterly Progress Report, R.L.E, MIT.
Bever, T.G. & Langendoen, D.T. (1963). The description of the Indo-European E/O ablaut. Quarterly Progress Report, R.L.E., MIT. (pdf)
Bever, T.G. (1963). The E/O ablaut in Old English. Quarterly Progress Report, R.L.E., MIT.
Bever, T.G. (1963). Theoretical implications of Bloomfield’s (pdf) ‘Menomini Morphophonemics’. Quarterly Progress Report, R.L.E., MIT Press.
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Bever, T.G., Smith, M., Bengen, G., & Johnson, T. (1975). Young viewers’ troubling response to TV ads. Harvard Business Review, 53(6), 109-120. (pdf)
Bever, T.G., & Mehler, J. (1974/75). Reason and unreason. Cognition, 3, 79-81.
Bever, T.G., Terrace, H.D. (1973). Introduction and review. In T.G. Bever & H.S. Terrace (Eds.), Human behavior: Prediction and control in modern society (pp. 3-8). Warner Modular Publications, Inc. H.D.)
Bever, T.G. (1967). Review of Robots, Men and Minds, by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy. New York: George Braziller, 150, in The American Journal of Psychology, 84(2), 296-298.

Books

Townsend, D.J., & Bever, T.G. (2004). Juzi lijie Yanjiu–xiguan yu guize de zhenghe. Qilu Academic Press (a somewhat revised Chinese version of Townsend and Bever, 2001).
Townsend, D.J., & Bever, T.G. (2001). Sentence Comprehension. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bever, T.G., Carroll, J.M., & Miller, L.A. (Eds.) (1984). Talking minds: The study of language in the cognitive sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (pdf)
H.L. Roitblat, T.G. Bever, & H.S. Terrace (Eds.) (1984). Animal cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bever, T.G. (Ed.) (1982). Regressions in mental development: Basic processes and mechanisms. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bever, T.G., Katz, J.J. & Langendoen, D.T. (Eds.) (1976). An integrated theory of linguistic ability. New York: T.Y. Crowel Press.
Fodor, J., Bever, T.G., & Garrett, M. (1974). The psychology of language. New York: McGraw Hill, 1974.
Bever, T.G., & Terrace, H.S. (Eds.) (1973). Human behavior: Prediction and control in modern society. Andover, Mass.:Warner Publications, Inc.

Patents

Since 2008

Bever, T. G., & Robbart, J. ( 2010). System and method of formatting text according to phrasing. U.S. Patent No. 7,743,324. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Bever, T.G, Nicholas, C. Jandreau J., Lamendola C, Hancock R. (2012) System, plug-in, and method for improving text composition by modifying character prominence according to assigned character information measures, Patent, 8,755,629
Bever, T. G., & Robbart, J. (2012). System and method of formatting text. US Patent No. 8,209,601. Washington, DC: U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
Bever, T.G, Nicholas, C. Jandreau J., Lamendola C, Hancock R. (2014) General system, plug-in, and method for improving text composition by modifying character prominence according to assigned character information measures, Patent, 8,306,356 Spring 2014

Before 2008

Bever, T. G., & Robbart, J. (Filed July 13, 2000/Issued June 27, 2006). System and method for formatting text according to linguistic, visual and psychological variables. U.S. Patent No. 7,069,508B1. Washington, DC: U. S. Patent and Trademark Office.