Jean Burko Gleason

Jean Berko Gleason (born 1931) is an American psycholinguist and professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. She has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of children's language acquisition, aphasia, gender differences in language development, and parent-child interactions. Recognized as one of the world's leading experts on children's language, her interest in linguistics began with a course taken in 1952 at Radcliffe College.