Could it be Edward Gibson [1]?

> I work on all aspects of human language: the words, the structures, across lots of languages. I mostly works [sic] with behavioral data: what people say, and how they perform in simple experiments.

(I find it ironic to see a grammatical error in his bio. Probably because of a mass find/replace from "He" to "I" but still...)

[1] http://tedlab.mit.edu/ted.html

I think #426