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Lila R. Gleitman publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lila R. Gleitman sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 106 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Lila R. Gleitman D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lila R. Gleitman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition
  • 2003 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lila R. Gleitman is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and arts and humanities, with a focus on language and linguistics, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics including syntax, semantics, linguistic variation, categorization, perception and language, language development and disorders, hearing impairment and communication, hand gesture recognition systems, language, discourse, communication strategies, and linguistics and terminology studies.

Significant recent publications include the following:

  • "Structural cues for symmetry, asymmetry, and non-symmetry in Central Taurus Sign Language" (2020), published in Sign Language & Linguistics
  • "Where word and world meet: Language and vision share an abstract representation of symmetry." (2022), published in Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Recollecting What We Once Knew: My Life in Psycholinguistics" (2021), published in Annual Review of Psychology
  • "The violin case" (2021), published in Cognition

Frequent collaborators include:

  • John C. Trueswell
  • Claire Gleitman
  • Anna Papafragou
  • Rabia Ergin
  • Ann Senghas

The scientist's work has been featured in several publication venues, reflecting the diverse nature of their research:

  • Sign Language & Linguistics
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Annual Review of Psychology
  • Cognition

Lila R. Gleitman has received multiple distinctions, including the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition in 2017, the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 2003, and elected memberships and fellowships such as Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2000, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1999, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1996.

Best Publications

  • The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings

    Lila R. Gleitman

  • Language Acquisition: The State of the Art

    Eric Wanner;Lila R. Gleitman

  • What some concepts might not be.

    Sharon Lee Armstrong;Lila R. Gleitman;Henry Gleitman

  • Turning the tables: language and spatial reasoning.

    Peggy Li;Lila Gleitman

  • Language and Experience: Evidence from the Blind Child

    Barbara Landau;Lila R. Gleitman

  • Human simulations of vocabulary learning.

    Jane Gillette;Henry Gleitman;Lila Gleitman;Anne Lederer

  • Mother, Id rather do it myself: Some effects and non-effects of maternal speech style

    E. Newport;Henry Gleitman;L. Gleitman

  • When it is better to receive than to give: Syntactic and conceptual constraints on vocabulary growth

    Cynthia Fisher;D.Geoffrey Hall;Susan Rakowitz;Lila Gleitman

  • Shake, rattle, ‘n’ roll: the representation of motion in language and cognition

    Anna Papafragou;Christine Massey;Lila Gleitman

  • On the semantic content of subcategorization frames.

    Cynthia Fisher;Henry Gleitman;Lila R Gleitman

  • Quality of early parent input predicts child vocabulary 3 years later

    Erica A Cartmill;Benjamin F Armstrong;Lila R Gleitman;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • Propose but verify: fast mapping meets cross-situational word learning.

    John C. Trueswell;Tamara Nicol Medina;Alon Hafri;Lila R. Gleitman

  • The current status of the motherese hypothesis

    Lila R. Gleitman;Elissa L. Newport;Henry Gleitman

  • How words can and cannot be learned by observation

    Tamara Nicol Medina;Jesse Snedeker;John C. Trueswell;Lila R. Gleitman

  • On the give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation.

    Lila R. Gleitman;David January;Rebecca Nappa;John C. Trueswell

  • Understanding how input matters: verb learning and the footprint of universal grammar.

    Jeffrey Lidz;Henry Gleitman;Lila Gleitman

  • Why It Is Hard to Label Our Concepts.

    J. Snedeker;L. Gleitman;Hall;Waxman

  • A Study in the Acquisition of Language: Free Responses to Commands

    Elizabeth F. Shipley;Carlota S. Smith;Lila R. Gleitman

  • Where learning begins: Initial representations for language learning.

    Lila R. Gleitman;Henry Gleitman;Barbara Landau;Eric Wanner

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  • Similar, and similar concepts

    Lila R. Gleitman;Henry Gleitman;Carol Anne Miller;Ruth Ostrin

  • The Emergence of the Child as Grammarian

    Lila R. Gleitman;Henry Gleitman;Elizabeth F. Shipley

  • When English Proposes What Greek Presupposes: The Cross-Linguistic Encoding of Motion Events.

    Anna Papafragou;Christine Massey;Lila Gleitman

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Trueswell
John C. Trueswell University of Pennsylvania
Anna Papafragou
Anna Papafragou University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Elissa L. Newport
Elissa L. Newport Georgetown University
Jeffrey Lidz
Jeffrey Lidz University of Maryland, College Park
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Jesse Snedeker
Jesse Snedeker Harvard University
Cynthia Fisher
Cynthia Fisher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul Rozin
Paul Rozin University of Pennsylvania
Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff Tufts University

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