LILA R. GLEITMAN

Born: December 10, 1929, Brooklyn, New York

Education

B.A. 1952
Literature
Antioch College

M.A. 1962
Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania

Ph.D. 1967
Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania

1968 -- 1971
Assistant Professor
Swarthmore College

1972 -- 1973
William T. Carter Professor of Education
University of Pennsylvania

1979 --
Steven and Marcia Roth Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania

Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania

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

Five Most Recent or Significant Publications

Language and experience: Evidence from the blind child. Harvard University Press, 1985 (with B. Landau).
"What some concepts might not be." Cognition, 13, 263--308, 1983 (with S.L. Armstrong and H. Gleitman).
"The structural sources of verb meanings." Language Acquisition, 1990, 1(1), 3 - 55
"When it is better to receive than to give: form and meaning in the verb lexicon," in press, Lingua (with Fisher, Hall, and Rakowitz)
Invitation to Cognitive Science (in press), editor and author, Volume I Language, MIT Press.