Lila Gleitman | University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology

Professor Emeritus

Department:

Psychology

Education:

BA, Literature, Antioch College; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania

Address:

3401 Walnut St, Room 408C

Phone:

215-573-6290

Email:

gleitman@psych.upenn.edu

Research Themes:

Developmental Psychology

Language and Communication

Specific Research Areas:

Psycholinguistics; morphological syntactic structure, language acquisition, representations of sound waves

Research Synopsis:

Psycholinguistics: morphological and syntactic structure. Language acquisition: representation of the sound wave; syntax; construction of the lexicon.

Representative Publications:

Gleitman, L., Gleitman, H., Miller, C., and Ostrin, R., (1996) 'Similar' and similar concepts, Cognition 58, 321-376.

Li, P. and Gleitman, L.R., Turning the tables: spatial language and spatial reasoning. (2002)
Cognition, 83:3, 265-294.

Gleitman, L.R. and A. Papafragou (2005) Language and thought, in Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning R. Morrison & K. Holyoak (eds), NY: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Gleitman, L.R., Cassidy, K., Papafragou, A., Nappa, R., & Trueswell, J.T. (2005) Hard words,
Journal of Language Learning and Development, 1:1., 23-64

Trueswell, J. & L.R. Gleitman (2005) Children’s eye movements during listening: evidence for a constraint-based theory of parsing and word learning, in J. M. Henderson & F. Ferreira (eds). Interface of vision, language, and action, NY: Psychology Press.