Charles Yang, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
Linguistics and Computer Science University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States 
Area:
Language acquisition, language change, computational linguistics, general linguistics
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Parents

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Robert C Berwick grad student MIT
Noam Chomsky grad student MIT

Children

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Aletheia Cui grad student Penn
Erwin Chan grad student 2008 Penn
Kyle Gorman grad student 2013 Penn
Constantine Lignos grad student 2008-2013 Penn
Ava Irani grad student 2014-2019 Penn
Andrea Ceolin grad student 2014-2020 Penn
Caitlin Richter grad student 2014-2020 Penn
Jordan Kodner grad student 2015-2020 Penn
Spencer Caplan grad student 2015-2021 Penn

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Laurel E. MacKenzie collaborator
Betsy Sneller collaborator
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Kodner J, Caplan S, Yang C. (2022) Another model not for the learning of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2204664119
Caplan S, Kodner J, Yang C. (2020) Miller's monkey updated: Communicative efficiency and the statistics of words in natural language. Cognition. 205: 104466
Yang C. (2019) How to Make the Most out of Very Little. Topics in Cognitive Science
Sneller B, Fruehwald J, Yang C. (2019) Using the Tolerance Principle to predict phonological change Language Variation and Change. 31: 1-20
Yang C. (2018) A formalist perspective on language acquisition Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 8: 665-706
Yang C, Crain S, Berwick RC, et al. (2017) The growth of language: Universal Grammar, experience, and principles of computation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Yang C. (2017) Rage against the machine: Evaluation metrics in the 21st century Language Acquisition. 24: 100-125
Goldin-Meadow S, Yang C. (2016) Statistical evidence that a child can create a combinatorial linguistic system without external linguistic input: Implications for language evolution. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Stevens JS, Gleitman LR, Trueswell JC, et al. (2016) The Pursuit of Word Meanings. Cognitive Science
Yang C, Montrul S. (2016) Learning datives: The Tolerance Principle in monolingual and bilingual acquisition Second Language Research. 33: 119-144
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