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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 MIT's AI Lab. His first book,Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language (2002),proposes a model of syntactic acquisition couched within the 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]
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