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Lila R. Gleitman
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 87
Citations - 11572
Lila R. Gleitman is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Verb & Language acquisition. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 85 publications receiving 10976 citations. Previous affiliations of Lila R. Gleitman include Rutgers University & Northwestern University.
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The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings
TL;DR: The authors observe how children learn languages and find that to make them understand what the names of simple ideas or substances stand for, people ordinarily show them the thing whereof they would have them have the idea; and then repeat to them the name that stands for it, as 'white','sweet','milk','sugar', 'cat', 'dog'.
Book
Language Acquisition: The State of the Art
Eric Wanner,Lila R. Gleitman +1 more
TL;DR: This book discusses language acquisition through the lens of grammar, semantics, and ontology, and investigates the role of universals in the acquisition of gerunds and its role in lexical and syntactic development.
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What some concepts might not be.
TL;DR: Three experiments that inquire how well-defined concepts fare under paradigms that are commonly interpreted to support the prototype view show that both well- defined and prototypic categories yield graded responses, the supposed hall-mark of a family resemblance structure.