LILA GLEITMAN

GLEITMAN DR. LILA R. On August 8th, 2021. Professor Emerita in the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, member of the National Academy of Sciences. Lila Gleitman was born in Brooklyn in 1929, she attended James Madison High School, and she received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. She began her academic career as an assistant professor at Swarthmore College before becoming the William T. Carter Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. She subsequently served as Professor of Linguistics and as the Steven and Marcia Roth Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1973 until she retired. She touched the lives of innumerable people with her astonishing wit, her keen intelligence, and her fierce commitment to getting to the bottom of things. To her final days, she was vitally engaged both by her work and by the people in her life. She adored playing bridge with her daughter Ellen, collaborating with her daughter Claire on writing projects, visiting with her grandchildren, and engaging in wide-ranging conversations with the many students and colleagues from all over the world whose careers she deeply influenced. She is survived by her daughters, Ellen Luchette and Claire Gleitman; her sons-in-law, Mark Luchette and David DeVries; her grandchildren, Zachary and Zoe Luchette, and Philip and Lucas DeVries; and the countless students who will treasure her memory. Her late husband was Dr. Henry Gleitman, also Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. www.goldsteinsfuneral.com