2026 Lila R. Gleitman: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	51	5104	4735	2804	2538	106	20376

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

2037
Citations
Language Acquisition: The State of the Art

Eric Wanner;Lila R. Gleitman

1763
Citations
What some concepts might not be.

Sharon Lee Armstrong;Lila R. Gleitman;Henry Gleitman

1077
Citations
Turning the tables: language and spatial reasoning.

Peggy Li;Lila Gleitman

895
Citations
Language and Experience: Evidence from the Blind Child

Barbara Landau;Lila R. Gleitman

891
Citations
Human simulations of vocabulary learning.

Jane Gillette;Henry Gleitman;Lila Gleitman;Anne Lederer

815
Citations
Mother, Id rather do it myself: Some effects and non-effects of maternal speech style

E. Newport;Henry Gleitman;L. Gleitman

699
Citations
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

621
Citations
Shake, rattle, ‘n’ roll: the representation of motion in language and cognition

Anna Papafragou;Christine Massey;Lila Gleitman

534
Citations
On the semantic content of subcategorization frames.

Cynthia Fisher;Henry Gleitman;Lila R Gleitman

471
Citations
Quality of early parent input predicts child vocabulary 3 years later

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

436
Citations
Propose but verify: fast mapping meets cross-situational word learning.

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

415
Citations
The current status of the motherese hypothesis

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

409
Citations
How words can and cannot be learned by observation

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

396
Citations
On the give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation.

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

378
Citations
Understanding how input matters: verb learning and the footprint of universal grammar.

Jeffrey Lidz;Henry Gleitman;Lila Gleitman

363
Citations
Why It Is Hard to Label Our Concepts.

J. Snedeker;L. Gleitman;Hall;Waxman

360
Citations
A Study in the Acquisition of Language: Free Responses to Commands

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

358
Citations
Where learning begins: Initial representations for language learning.

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

343
Citations
Hard Words

Unknown

329
Citations
Similar, and similar concepts

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

312
Citations
The Emergence of the Child as Grammarian

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

284
Citations
When English Proposes What Greek Presupposes: The Cross-Linguistic Encoding of Motion Events.

Anna Papafragou;Christine Massey;Lila Gleitman

275
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Trueswell University of Pennsylvania

Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University

Elissa L. Newport Georgetown University

Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago

Jesse Snedeker Harvard University

Paul Rozin University of Pennsylvania

Willem J. M. Levelt Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Heidi M. Feldman Stanford University

Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

Linda B. Smith Indiana University

External Links

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