Lila Ruth Gleitman, who lived from December 10, 1929 to August 8, 2021, was an American professor of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She was an internationally renowned expert on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics, focusing on children's learning of their first language. She earned a B.A. in literature from Antioch College in 1952 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, and she is recognized as a pioneer of cognitive science. Her research led to the development of her renowned theory of syntactic bootstrapping.
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She was an internationally renowned expert on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics, focusing on children's learning of their first language.
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This led developmental psycholinguists like Lila Gleitman, who coined the term syntactic bootstrapping in 1990, to argue that syntax was pivotal for language learning, as it also gives a learner clues about semantics.
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