Tom Bever
Psycholinguist and cognitive scientist who played a formative role in early psycholinguistics and biolinguistics, known for work on language acquisition, sentence processing, hemispheric asymmetries, and the interaction of innate and learned capacities in language.
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Mar 6, 2026 • 1h 24min
Chomsky, Chimpsky, and Beyond: Tom Bever
Tom Bever, influential psycholinguist who shaped early work on language acquisition and processing. He recounts childhood experiments and shifting from biology to linguistics. Conversations cover the Chomsky–Skinner clash, Project Nim and sign-learning in chimps, hemisphere timing differences in speech, and an epigenetic view of how language emerges from gene–environment interaction.
