Charles Yang
Charles Yang
Office: 370 Temple St. 302Lab: 370 Temple St. 320
Telephone: (203) 432-6499
FAX: (203) 432-4087
E-mail: charles(dot)yang(at)yale(dot)edu
Permanent Email: charles(dot)yang(at)alum(dot)mit(dot)edu
Mailing Address:
Department of Linguistics
Yale University
370 Temple Street 302
New Haven, CT 06520-8236
Research Interests
- Language Acquisition, Change, and Evolution: quantitative and computational approaches to child language acquisition, and the origin and evolution of human language.
- Computational Linguistics: understanding language with computational methods and constructing applied natural language processing systems.
- Syntax: phrase structure in Universal Grammar.
New Universal Grammar, Statistics, or Both Forthcoming in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. (Unedited; please cite the final version in print.)
Some books, papers, and talks
Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language (2002, Oxford). On grammar and word learning, and language change.
A paper on language change and word orders in the history of French and English. in Language Variation and Change, 12:231-250.
Review of Steven Pinker´s Words and Rules in The London Review of Books.
On innateness in The Linguistic Review 19:151-162. (With Julie Anne Legate)
A paper on the Merge operation and some of its surprising consequences. in Syntax 2:38-64.
A note on Chomsky´s recent paper “Derivation by Phase”. (With John Frampton, Sam Gutmann, and Julie Anne Legate)
A lecture at The Institute for Advanced Studies on language variation, acquisition and evolution.
A lecture at Johns Hopkins on word learning and change.
A paper on the evolution of “imperfect” features in language. (Unedited; to appear in a volume on language evolution. Some tables missing–blame them.)