Charles Yang (linguist)
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Charles Yang (born 1973) is a linguist and cognitive scientist. He is currently Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] His research focuses on language acquisition, variation and change, and is carried out from a broadly Chomskyan perspective.
Yang is a graduate of
Principles and Parameters framework. In this model, different grammatical options are associated with different probabilities, which change over time. The model is applied to a number of case studies in language acquisition and historical linguistics. His second book, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World (2006), is written for a popular audience, and explores acquisition and knowledge of language. Yang's third book, The Price of Productivity: How Children Learn to Break the Rules of Language (2016), won the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Award.[2]
This book deals with the acquisition of linguistic rules with exceptions, and proposes a quantifiable upper bound on the number of lexical exceptions that a grammatical rule can tolerate.
In 2018, Yang was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]
References
- ^ Department of Linguistics: Faculty, University of Pennsylvania, archived from the original on 2018-09-08, retrieved 2018-09-07.
- ^ Bloomfield Book Award 2018 Presented to Charles Yang, Linguistic Society of America, archived from the original on 2018-09-07, retrieved 2018-09-07.
- ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation: Charles Yang, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, archived from the original on 2018-09-08, retrieved 2018-09-07.
Books
- —— (2001). Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language (PhD thesis). MIT. hdl:1721.1/86586.
- —— (2002). Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-925414-9.
- —— (2006). The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-7432-3756-7.
- —— (2016). The Price of Productivity: How Children Learn to Break the Rules of Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03532-3.
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