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  1. Aug 28

    Lila Gleitman revolutionized the study of language acquisition, but she said her greatest accomplishment was adding a certain four-letter word to the dictionary. She has died at 91.

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  2. Aug 27

    Along with Noam Chomsky, Lila Gleitman upended linguistics by showing that the structure of language is hard-wired in the human brain from birth. She has died at 91.

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  3. 5 hours ago

    Earlier this month, the world lost noted linguist Lila Gleitman. Throughout her career, Gleitman worked to test and prove syntax was innate in children. To learn more about her impressive contributions to Noam Chomsky's theories of language, read on:

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  4. Aug 24

    The questions that shaped Lila Gleitman's career were, as she put it, “the presidential questions” of children’s knowledge

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  5. Aug 26

    Lila Gleitman was driving her two-year-­old daughter in the car when, executing a tricky turn, she advised her to “hold on tight”. The toddler responded: “Isn’t that ‘tightly’?” It was a turning­-point in the scholar’s career

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  6. 12 hours ago

    Building on the work of Noam Chomsky, she designed elegant experiments to show that syntax is hard-wired into the human brain.

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  7. 12 hours ago

    “She believed that language learning was not just the accumulation of facts over time, but that it was inherent to who we are as humans.”

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  8. Aug 27

    Lila Gleitman, whose pioneering work in linguistics and cognitive science expanded our understanding of how language works and how children go about learning it, died on Aug. 8 at a hospital in Philadelphia. She was 91.

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  9. Aug 27

    One of the pioneers of cognitive science.

  10. Aug 28

    Linguist Lila Gleitman, who went on to "virtually create" (Chomsky) the field of language acquisition, asked her daughter to "hold on tight" as the car rounded the turn. Two-year-old Claire replied, "Isn't that 'tightly'"?

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  11. Aug 27

    Lila Gleitman revolutionized linguistics. She’s also responsible for adding f*ck to the dictionary. She died at 91.

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  12. Aug 28

    Building on the work of her friend Noam Chomsky, Lila Gleitman argued that the structures, or syntax, of language were hard-wired into the brain from birth.

    Lila Gleitman, who showed how children learn language, dies at 91
  13. Aug 23

    Lila Gleitman’s work supported the idea that youngsters are somehow programmed to learn, even if what they hear from those around them is sparse and unstructured

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  14. 19 hours ago

    Lila Gleitman (1929–2021), Renowned for Innovative Research on Language and Learning - New from

  15. Aug 27

    terrific obit by of lila gleitman, whose many achievements in the study of language and cognitive development were supplemented by getting "fuck" added to webster's. "i have taken it as my chief accomplishment in life,” she said.

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  16. Aug 27

    Lila Gleitman, Who Showed How Children Learn Language, Dies at 91

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  17. Aug 28

    , on consciousness, understanding mind & AI, etc. Plus connections to religion: Dr. L Gleitman passed Her syntactic bootstrapping is area (to answer) not 100% understood. Side note: sutras note similar things on blind people, color words.

  18. Aug 23

    Through her research into children and language, Lila Gleitman, who died on August 8th at the age of 91, helped define psycholinguistics, a field that hardly existed before

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  19. Aug 25

    “It was the first but not last time Lila taught me that doing a study elegantly and carefully is important, but knowing why you did it is even more important. You should be able to explain the purpose of a study to anyone,”

  20. Aug 28

    Inside the Psychologist's Studio with Lila Gleitman via

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