Lila Gleitman

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Lila R. Gleitman (born December 10, 1929 in Brooklyn , New York City , † August 8, 2021 ) was an American developmental psychologist, cognitive scientist and psycholinguist .

Career

Gleitman studied literature at Antioch College with a bachelor's degree in 1952 and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania with a master's degree in 1962 and a doctorate in 1967. She became an assistant professor at Swarthmore College and, from 1972, professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania 1973 Steven and Marcia Roth Professor of Psychology.

She dealt with the question of how young children learn language, with psycholinguistics and morphological syntactic structure. She found that children actively try to derive word meanings, especially of verbs, via syntactic structures ( syntactic bootstrapping , also developed by Steven Pinker ), with blind and deaf children using similar mechanisms in this regard when learning languages. This could also explain the slower learning of the meanings of verbs than nouns and the like.

She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences . In 2017 she received the David E. Rumelhart Prize .

She was married to the University of Pennsylvania professor of psychology Henry Gleitman .

Fonts (selection)

  • with B. Landau: Language and experience: Evidence from the blind child , Harvard University Press 1985.
  • The structural sources of verb meanings , in: Language Acquisition, Volume 1, 1990, pp. 3-55.
  • with H. Gleitman, C. Miller, R. Ostrin: Similar and similar concepts , Cognition, Volume 58, 1996, pp. 321-376.
  • with P. Li: Turning the tables: spatial language and spatial reasoning , Cognition, Volume 83, 2002, pp. 265-294.
  • with A. Papafragou: Language and thought , in: R. Morrison, K. Holoyak (Eds.): Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning , Cambridge UP 2004.
  • with K. Cassidy, A. Papafragou, R. Nappa, JT Trueswell: Hard words , Journal of Language Learning and Development, Volume 1, 2005, pp. 23-64.
  • with J. Trueswell: Children's eye movements during listening: evidence for a constraint-based theory of parsing and word learning , in: JM Henderson, F. Ferreira (ed.), Interface of vision, language, and action, NY: Psychology Press 2005.
  • with D. January, R. Nappa, JC Trueswell: On the give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation , Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 57, 2007, pp. 544-569.
  • with A. Papafragou, K. Cassidy: When we think about thinking: The acquisition of belief verbs , Cognition, Volume 105, 2007, pp. 125-165.
  • with P. Li, L. Abarbanell, A. Papafragou: Spatial reasoning in Tenejapan Mayans . Cognition, Volume 120, 2011, pp. 33-53.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Notorious LRG - Lila Gleitman passes away. In: The International Congress of Infant Studies. August 10, 2021, accessed August 10, 2021 (American English).
  2. ↑ Rumelhart Prize for Gleitman ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rumelhartprize.org
personal data
SURNAME Gleitman, purple
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gleitman, Lila R.
SHORT DESCRIPTION American psychologist and cognitive scientist
BIRTH DATE December 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2021