Henry Gleitman

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Henry Gleitman (born 1925) is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gleitman was born in Leipzig, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. He then taught at Swarthmore College before joining the UPenn faculty in 1953.

Gleitman is a cognitive psychologist with interests in language (especially the relationship between semantics and syntax), but he claims, "I'm probably better identified as a general psychologist whose research interests range over many of the traditional areas of psychological inquiry."^[1] Gleitman is best known for his authorship of Psychology, a classic textbook first published in 1981 used in many Introduction to Psychology classes, now in its eighth edition.^[2] He is married to fellow psychologist Lila R. Gleitman, an internationally-renowned language acquisition researcher, who is also a Professor Emerita of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

References

↑ "Henry Gleitman's Homepage". Retrieved 15 June 2011.
↑ Henry Gleitman, James Gross, Daniel Reisberg (2010), Psychology, ISBN 978-0-393-93250-8

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