Elizabeth "Liz" Ann Bates

Born: 1947

Died: 2003

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: White

St Louis University BA 1968; University of Chicago MA 1971 & PhD 1974 both in Human Development

Field of Study: Cognitive Science; Linguistics

Institution/Corporation: UC San Diego; University of Colorado

Degrees & Memberships: Honorary Degrees: University of Paris (1992), New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997); Member: 1983 Fellow Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1983),

Awards: 1979 Boyd R. McCandless Distinguished Young Scientist Award Division 7, American Psychological Association; 1981 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship;

Achievements: an internationally renowned expert and leading researcher in child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, aphasia, and the neurological bases of language, and she authored 10 books and over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these subjects; asserted that linguistic knowledge is distributed throughout the brain and is subserved by general cognitive and neurological processes; one of the founders of the Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD, the first department of its kind in the USA; director of the UCSD Center of Research in Language and the co-director of the San Diego State University/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communication Disorders;