Professor of Psychology, Emirata
gleitman@psych.upenn.edu
It is with profound sadness to report that Professor Lila Gleitman passed away August 8, 2021, at age 91. Lila was a leader in the developing field of cognitive science, and a guiding light to many in the field both personally and professionally. Please visit here and here for information on her life well lived.
Lila Gleitman was a linguist and psycholinguist whose work concerned the mental lexicon and its interface with syntax, language acquisition, and the relation between language and thought. One of her main interests concerned the architecture and semantic content of the mental lexicon, i.e., the psychological representation of the forms and meanings of words. Another major interest was in how children acquire both the lexicon and the syntactic structure of the native tongue.
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Publications can be found here. And, here is a copy of my CV as of September 2012.
People I’ve trained and worked with:
Former Graduate Students:
Elissa Newport, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Barbara Landau, Letty Naigles, Cynthia Fisher, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Carol Miller, Lloyd Komatsu, Ruth Ostrin, Howard Geyer, Ann Fowler, Barbara Freed, Pamela Freyd, George Meck, Julia Dutton, Ed Kako, Annie Lederer Duke, Jane Gillette, Andrew Connolly, Peggy Li, Jesse Snedeker, Felicia Hurewitz, Laura Wagner, Becky Nappa, Sudha Arunachalam
Former Post-Docs:
Sharon Armstrong, Amy Pierce, Adele Abrahamsen, John Kim, Jeff Lidz , Julien Musolino, Toben Mintz , Fei Xu , Martha McGinnis, Sandeep Prasada, Angeliek von Hout, Sergey Avrutin, Misha Becker, Anna Papafragou, Jesse Snedeker, Felicia Hurewitz, Tamara Medina