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I regularly work with undergraduates and graduate students in Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Psychology, Neuroscience and Education, always on topics of interest to them, eventually of interest to me. My own research and teaching is inclues the current revival of “biolinguistics”, the idea that language is a biological object to be studied through the lens of evolution, with experimental and observational tools used in biology. This leads to studies of the causes of language universals aimed at delineating just those universals that are unique to language as opposed to being properties of general cognition, maturation, perception or motor behaviors. This in turn motivates studies of language-like universal processes outside of language, such as in music, spatial cognition, visual perception, animal cognition, child development, bilingual organization and second language learning, motion perception, conspecific recognition. A current theme of my laboratory is the study of the neurological organization for language and cognition as a function of individual and familial left-handedness: this may give us a small window into the epigenetic dynamics involved in the emergence of brain organization for higher functions in the child. My lab includes the usual array of computers and small booths for running experiments. In addition, we have an active EEG system for assessing aspects of functional brain organization during language and cognitive behaviors and access to several kinds of eye-movement trackers.

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Courses
  • PL
    Psychology of Language

  • B
    Biolinguistics

  • TPWS
    The Psycholinguistics of Writing Systems

  • MLS
    Meaning in Language and Society

News
  • Noam Chomsky Teaches Linguistics to UA Students

    2016

  • Noam Chomsky to Return to UA

    2015

  • Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Build Collaboration, Productivity

    2013

  • The Chomsky-UA Connection

    2012

  • Noam Chomsky to Speak at UA

    2012

  • Observing Nature to Help Make Sense of a Complex World

    2011

  • UA Professor Wins Germany's Humboldt Prize

    2009

  • UA Astronomer Dennis Zaritsky Named 2006 Guggenheim Fellow

    2006

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Unit Honored

    2005

  • UA Linguistics Prof Honored for Educational Research in China

    2005

  • UA Linquists Write Preface for 'Science' Article

    2002

Publications (268)
Recent
  • How Cognition came into being

    2021

  • 2. Ape Language

    2019

  • Regression in the service of development

    2017

  • Basic patterns of psychogenetic change in infancy

    2017

  • Regressions in mental development: Basic phenomena and theories

    2017

  • The unity of consciousness and the consciousness of unity

    2017

  • A Two-Step Model for Visuomotor Development

    2017

  • Many important language universals are not reducible to processing or cognition

    2016

  • The Golden Mean and Depth Perception

    2016

  • Commentary on Christiansen and Chater: Many important language universals are not reducible to processing or cognition. Invited commentary on Christianen, Morten H., and Nick Chater, “The Now-or-Never Bottleneck: A Fundamental Constraint on Language.”.

    2016

  • Listener–speaker perceived distance predicts the degree of motor contribution to speech perception

    2015

  • Is Subject Relatives Preference Universal? - ERP evidence from Chinese relative clause processing.

    2015

  • The comparative study of serially integrated behavior in humans and animals

    2014

  • Low frequency networks during sentence vs semantic processing

    2014

  • 26 sources of variance in an information processing theory of timing

    2014

  • Models of word segmentation in fluent maternal speech to infants

    2014

  • Listener--speaker perceived distance predicts the degree of motor contribution to speech perception

    2014

  • The logical and extrinsic sources of modularity

    2014

  • Unconscious processes in masked form category priming

    2014

  • Event Structure Affects On-line Sentence Comprehension

    2014

  • Genetic factors and normal variation in the organization of language

    2013

  • Evidence for the use of verb telicity in sentence comprehension

    2013

  • Role of the striatum in language: Syntactic and conceptual sequencing

    2013

  • Lessons from psycholinguistics for second language learning

    2012

  • System and method of formatting text

    2012

  • Three aspects of the relation between lexical and syntactic knowledge

    2012

  • System, plug-in, and method for improving text composition by modifying character prominence according to assigned character information measures

    2012

  • Genetic factors in the cerebral asymmetries for language and music

    2012

  • Garden path and the comprehension of head-final relative clauses

    2011

  • CHAPTER FOUR TWO LESSONS FROM PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

    2011

  • Chinese character decoding: a semantic bias?

    2010

  • The biological nature of human language

    2010

  • The canonical form constraint: Language acquisition via a general theory of learning

    2010

  • System and method of formatting text according to phrasing

    2010

  • Analysis by synthesis: a (re-) emerging program of research for language and vision

    2010

  • All Language Understanding is a Psycholinguistic Guessing Game

    2009

  • The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science

    2009

  • Partitions and parameters

    2009

  • Cerebral dominance in musicians and nonmusicians. 1974.

    2009

  • Remarks on the individual basis for linguistic structures

    2009

  • The role of analysis by synthesis in universals of language behavior and structure

    2009

  • Biolinguistics today and Platonism yesterday

    2009

  • Minimalist behaviorism: The role of the individual in explaining language universals

    2009

  • System and method of determining phrasing in text

    2008

  • Language as ergonomic perfection

    2008

  • A biolinguistic agenda

    2008

  • Processing doubly-embedded head-final relative clauses

    2007

  • Processing head-final relative clauses without garden paths

    2007

  • Subject preference in the processing of relative clauses in Chinese

    2006

  • System and method for formatting text according to linguistic, visual and psychological variables

    2006

  • Chinese is no exception: Universal subject preference of relative clause processing

    2006

  • Situated Communication

    2006

  • The fractionation of miracles

    2005

  • Constructing filler-gap dependencies in Chinese possessor relative clauses

    2005

  • The biology of learning

    2005

  • The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation William D. Davies, Stanley Dubinsky Copyright© 2004 by William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky

    2004

  • The time course for language acquisition in biologically distinct populations: Evidence from deaf individuals

    2004

  • Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals

    2003

  • Discontinuous constituent use by left-and right-handers in spoken and written sentence generation

    2002

  • The distributional structure of grammatical categories in speech to young children

    2002

  • Jufa fenxi zai waiyu yueduzhong de zuoyong [An experimental study of the function of syntactic analysis in reading comprehension]

    2002

  • 句法分析在外语阅读中的作用——一项实验研究

    2002

  • Noam's ark

    2002

  • The role of event structure in language comprehension

    2002

  • A theory of Syntactic Interface in the Bilingual.

    2001

  • A theory of syntactic interference in the bilingual

    2001

  • Familial handedness and access to words, meaning, and syntax during sentence comprehension

    2001

  • 448 joURNAL o THE H 1sToR Y o PHILoso PHY 23: 3 JULY 1 985

    2001

  • Sentence comprehention

    2001

  • Cognition—Some Personal Histories

    2001

  • Some sentences on our consciousness of sentences

    2001

  • Sentence comprehension: The integration of habits and rules

    2001

  • DiCamillo, Marie, 219 Dosher, Barbara A., 479

    2000

  • Reduced relatives and WH-gaps in spoken sentence comprehension

    2000

  • The role of verb and preposition variables in reduced relative complexity

    2000

  • Theoretical Implications of Bloomfield's ‘Menomini Morphophonemics'

    1999

  • Endogenous Asymmetries in the Rat Brain Affect Complex Spatial Learning

    1998

  • The Emperor's Psycholinguistics.

    1998

  • Peripheral and Cerebral Asymmetries in the Rat.

    1997

  • Empty categories access their antecedents during comprehension: Unaccusatives in Spanish

    1997

  • Experimental psycholinguistics: Then, now and thence

    1996

  • Signal to syntax

    1996

  • LEFT-HANDEDNESS AND DELAYED LEARNING OF SYNTAX

    1995

  • Distributional regularities of form class in speech to young children

    1995

  • Hemispheric Asymmetry of Function in Rats

    1993

  • Auditory sequence complexity and hemispheric asymmetry of function in rats

    1993

  • Proficiency differences in accessing properties of spoken sentences

    1992

  • The demons and the beast: Modular and nodular kinds of knowledge

    1992

  • Phrase-spaced formats improve comprehension in average readers.

    1992

  • Canonical and non-canonical syllable discrimination by two-day-old infants

    1992

  • Heredity, maturation, and proficiency in sentence comprehension

    1992

  • Linguistics and Psycholinguistic of Unaccusativity in Spanish

    1992

  • The use of higher-level constraints in monitoring for a change in speaker demonstrates functionally distinct levels of representation in discourse comprehension

    1991

  • Spacing printed text to isolate major phrases improves readability

    1991

  • On-line choice and the representation of serially structured stimuli.

    1991

  • Converging evidence on sex-differences in spatial ability

    1991

  • Clever moms: Regularities in motherese that prove useful in parsing

    1990

  • Cognitive maps in rats and humans

    1990

  • The psychological reality of NP-trace

    1990

  • Perlmutter stated that the initial stratum of monadic predicates can involve either an initial 1 or an initial 2.

    1989

  • Language processing and familial handedness

    1989

  • A left-hemisphere advantage for gesture-language signs in the dolphin

    1989

  • The psychological reality of linguistically defined gaps

    1989

  • CONNECTIONIST ANALYSIS OF SYNTACTIC REDUNDANCIES THAT MAY FACILITATE COMPREHENSION

    1989

  • Complexity and cerebral asymmetries in latent learning of cognitive maps

    1988

  • The induction of mental structures while learning to use symbolic systems

    1988

  • Linguistic anaphors, levels of representation, and discourse

    1988

  • Empty categories access their antecedents during comprehension

    1988

  • Knowledge representations during reading depend on reading strategy and reading skill

    1988

  • The psychological reality of grammar: A student’s eye view of cognitive science

    1988

  • JOEL LACHTER

    1988

  • Online choice and hierarchical representation of sequences

    1988

  • The relation between linguistic structure and associative theories of language learning models: constructive critique of some connectionist learning models

    1988

  • INCREASING DISCOURSE PREDICTABILITY REDUCES TENSION TO THE ACOUSTIC LEVEL OF SPEECH

    1988

  • A cognitive theory of emotion and aesthetics in music.

    1988

  • Arnauld, A. 15

    1987

  • A tale of two brains; or, the sinistral quasimodularity of language

    1987

  • Listening and reading processes in college-and middle school-age readers

    1987

  • LEARNING TO MAP BOTH WAYS FACILITATES STRUCTURE ACQUISITION

    1987

  • The hierarchical representation of three-item sequences

    1987

  • Linguistic intuitions are the result of interactions between perceptual processes and linguistic universals

    1986

  • 0304-422X/86/$3.50 0 1986, Elsevier Science Publishers BV (North-Holland)

    1986

  • The aesthetic basis for cognitive structures.

    1986

  • Tales of 2 sites-the quasimodularity of language

    1986

  • Spoken sentence processing strategies vary with reading skill

    1986

  • Processing of metaphoric language: An investigation of the three-stage model of metaphor comprehension

    1985

  • ACCESSING DISCOURSE MEANING DURING SENTENCE PROCESSING

    1985

  • Animal Cognition: Proceedings of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Conference, June 2-4, 1982 [held at Columbia University]

    1984

  • NORMAL RATS ARE RIGHT-EAR DOMINANT FOR TONE-SEQUENCE DISCRIMINATION

    1984

  • Animal Cognition: Proceedings of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Conference, June 2-4, 1982

    1984

  • Animal cognition

    1984

  • Sensitivity to propositional units in good reading

    1984

  • The road from behaviorism to rationalism

    1984

  • Biology of Learning in Humans: Group Report

    1984

  • Eye‐Fixation Patterns During Reading Confirm Theories of Language Comprehension

    1984

  • Talking minds: The study of language in cognitive science

    1984

  • The beginning and end of sequence discrimination

    1983

  • Cerebral lateralization, cognitive asymmetry, and human consciousness

    1983

  • Italicized numerals indicate page numbers of article (s) in this text by the author named in the entry. Abercrombie, D., 157 Abramson, AS, 82, 85

    1983

  • The cognitive basis of aesthetic experience

    1983

  • DISCRIMINATION OF 3-ITEM SEQUENCES BY PIGEONS

    1983

  • THE COGNITIVE BASIS OF ART

    1983

  • The editors are extremely grateful to the following consultants who helped to review manuscripts submitted for Volume 20 (1981): Ackerman, Brian Baron, Jonathan

    1982

  • Natural units of representation interact during sentence comprehension

    1982

  • Primary Units of Immediate Speech Processing

    1982

  • Children use canonical sentence schemas: A crosslinguistic study of word order and inflections

    1982

  • On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays

    1982

  • Anderson, John R., 165

    1982

  • Biological studies of mental processes:[conference on Maturational Factors in Cognitive Development and the Biology of Language held June 8-11, 1978]

    1982

  • Language acquisition: The state of the art

    1982

  • The non-uniqueness of linguistic intuitions

    1981

  • Linguistic Society of America

    1981

  • ¿ Puede un antropoide generar una oración?

    1981

  • La psicología del lenguaje y las investigaciones estrcuturales del innatismo

    1981

  • On some continuous properties in language

    1981

  • Las estructuras subyacentes de las oraciones son las unidades primarias del procesamiento inmediato del habla

    1981

  • Normal acquisition processes explain the critical period for language learning

    1981

  • Psycholinguistic theory and the" critical period.

    1981

  • Harmonic structure as a determinant of melodic organization

    1981

  • Ape language

    1981

  • On the grammatical capacity of apes

    1980

  • 10 Broca and Lashley Were Right: Cerebral Dominance Is an Accident of Growth

    1980

  • Hemispheric asymmetries in the perception of musical intervals as a function of musical experience and family handedness background

    1980

  • Biological studies of mental processes

    1980

  • Serial learning in the pigeon

    1979

  • Immediate memory for words from main and subordinate clauses at different age levels

    1979

  • Perceptual mechanisms and formal properties of main and subordinate clauses

    1979

  • Can an ape create a sentence?

    1979

  • Interclause relations and clausal processing

    1978

  • Adams, Frederick, 455 Anderson, Richard C., 1 Antos, Stephen J., 465

    1978

  • An integrated theory of linguistic ability

    1977

  • SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION AND WORD RECOGNITION WHILE LISTENING TO MAIN AND SUBORDINATE CLAUSES

    1977

  • Main and subordinate clauses: A study in figure and ground

    1977

  • The perception of relations: The interaction of structural, functional and contextual factors in the segmentation of sentences

    1977

  • Representation of a sequence by pigeons

    1977

  • The fall and rise of empiricism or the truth about generative semantics

    1976

  • Analytic processing elicits right ear superiority in monaurally presented speech

    1976

  • Project Nim: Progress Report I

    1976

  • Sentence comprehension: a case study in the relation of knowledge and perception

    1976

  • When presented with this sequence in isolation, most listeners reinterpret

    1976

  • Analogy or ungrammatical sequences that are utterable and comprehensible are the origins of new grammars in language acquisition and linguistic evolution

    1976

  • Segmentation in cinema perception

    1976

  • Projection mechanisms in reading, or when the journal review process fails

    1976

  • What might be learned from studying language in the chimpanzee? The importance of symbolizing oneself

    1976

  • Sentence-picture verification models as theories of sentence comprehension: A critique of Carpenter and Just.

    1976

  • Developmental Psycholinguistics: Theory and Applications

    1975

  • and Walter MacGinitie for their contributions to this study. Thanks are gratefully extended to

    1975

  • Psychologically real grammar emerges because of its role in language acquisition

    1975

  • RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE AND LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE. 4. DISCUSSION

    1975

  • Discussion Paper: Some Theoretical and Empirical Issues that ARISE if we Insist on Distinguishing Language and thought

    1975

  • Response biases do not account for the effect of clause structure on the perception of nonlinguistic stimuli

    1975

  • Young viewers' troubling response to TV ads

    1975

  • Functionalist explanations presuppose independently motived theories of behavior

    1975

  • Detection of a nonlinguistic stimulus is poorest at the end of a clause

    1975

  • Functional explanations require independently motivated functional theories.

    1975

  • Cerebral asymmetries in humans are due to the differentiation of two incompatible processes: Holistic and analytic

    1975

  • Sensitivity to phonological universals in children and adolescents

    1975

  • ANALYTIC PROCESSING ELICITS RIGHT EAR SUPERIORITY IN MONAURALLY PRESENTED SPEECH 1

    1975

  • The psychology of language: An introduction to psycholinguistics and generative grammar

    1974

  • Linguistic capacity of very young children

    1974

  • The specificity of language skills

    1974

  • The perceptual segmentation of sentences

    1974

  • The ascent of the specious or there's a lot we don't know about mirrors

    1974

  • Reason and Un-Reason.

    1974

  • The interaction of perception and linguistic structures: A preliminary investigation of neo-functionalism

    1974

  • The Ascent of the Specious'

    1974

  • The fall and rise of empiricism

    1974

  • Cerebral dominance in musicians and nonmusicians

    1974

  • The psychology of language and structuralist investigations of nativism

    1974

  • The interaction of perceptual processes and ambiguous sentences

    1973

  • „Can a not unhappy person be called a sad one?"

    1973

  • Can a not unhappy person be called a not sad one?

    1973

  • Perception, thought, and language

    1972

  • The interaction of speech perception and grammatical structure in the evolution of language

    1972

  • The limits of intuition

    1972

  • PERCEPTIONS, THOUGHT

    1972

  • The nature of cerebral dominance in speech behavior of the child and adult

    1971

  • Robots, Men, and Minds

    1971

  • A dynamic model of the evolution of language

    1971

  • Advances in psycholinguistics

    1970

  • The comprehension and memory of sentences with temporal relations

    1970

  • Perceptual strategies and the competence-performance issue

    1970

  • The integrated study of language behavior

    1970

  • Judging the veracity of ambiguous sentences

    1970

  • The nonperceptual reality of the phoneme

    1970

  • Cognition and the development of language

    1970

  • The cognitive basis for linguistic structures. Cognition and the development of language, ed. by John R. Hayes, 279-362

    1970

  • Some lexical structures and their empirical validity

    1970

  • The influence of speech performance on linguistic structures

    1970

  • When do we compute all the interpretations of an ambiguous sentence?

    1970

  • Cognition and language development

    1970

  • An autonomic reflection of syntactic structure

    1969

  • Syntactic structure modifies attention during speech perception and recognition

    1969

  • The underlying structures of sentences are the primary units of immediate speech processing

    1969

  • Empirical Studies of Linguistic Universals in Very Young Children

    1969

  • Transitional probability is not a general mechanism for the segmentation of speech.

    1969

  • La réalité psychologique des segments linguistiques

    1969

  • A Survey of Some Recent Work in Psycholinguistics.

    1968

  • Some syntactic determinants of sentential complexity, II: Verb structure

    1968

  • Reply by J. Mehler and TG Bever

    1968

  • The comprehension and verification of ambiguous sentences

    1968

  • DISCUSSION OF PIAGET, J

    1968

  • The study of competence in cognitive psychology

    1968

  • What children do in spite of what they know

    1968

  • LINGUISTIC CAPACITY OF VERY YOUNG CHILDREN.

    1968

  • A formal limitation of associationism

    1968

  • Associations to stimulus-response theories of language

    1968

  • The development of psychological models for speech recognition

    1968

  • as Chomsky, 1957; Fodor & Katz, 1964; Lees

    1967

  • What we look at when we read

    1967

  • On the acquisition of syntax: A critique of “contextual generalization.”

    1967

  • Leonard Bloomfield and the phonology of the Menomini language.

    1967

  • Cognitive capacity of very young children

    1967

  • The active use of grammar in speech perception

    1966

  • THEORETICAL NOTES

    1965

  • Underlying structures in discourse

    1965

  • The psychological reality of linguistic segments

    1965

  • On the acquisition of syntax: A critique of" contextual generalization."

    1965

  • Is linguistics empirical?

    1965

  • The development from vocal to verbal behavior in children

    1964

  • The e/o ablaut in Old English

    1963

  • Linguistics

    1962

  • Pre-linguistic Behaviour: A Systematic Analysis and Comparison of Early Vocal and General Development

    1961

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