Charles Yang, Ph.D. - Publications

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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Year Citation  Score
2022 Kodner J, Caplan S, Yang C. Another model not for the learning of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2204664119. PMID 35787184 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2204664119  0.703
2020 Caplan S, Kodner J, Yang C. Miller's monkey updated: Communicative efficiency and the statistics of words in natural language. Cognition. 205: 104466. PMID 33010667 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104466  0.71
2019 Yang C. How to Make the Most out of Very Little. Topics in Cognitive Science. PMID 30861339 DOI: 10.1111/Tops.12415  0.456
2019 Sneller B, Fruehwald J, Yang C. Using the Tolerance Principle to predict phonological change Language Variation and Change. 31: 1-20. DOI: 10.1017/S0954394519000061  0.801
2018 Yang C. A formalist perspective on language acquisition Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 8: 665-706. DOI: 10.1075/Lab.18014.Yan  0.664
2017 Yang C, Crain S, Berwick RC, Chomsky N, Bolhuis JJ. The growth of language: Universal Grammar, experience, and principles of computation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. PMID 28077259 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neubiorev.2016.12.023  0.809
2017 Yang C. Rage against the machine: Evaluation metrics in the 21st century Language Acquisition. 24: 100-125. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2016.1274318  0.617
2016 Goldin-Meadow S, Yang C. Statistical evidence that a child can create a combinatorial linguistic system without external linguistic input: Implications for language evolution. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. PMID 28041786 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neubiorev.2016.12.016  0.635
2016 Stevens JS, Gleitman LR, Trueswell JC, Yang C. The Pursuit of Word Meanings. Cognitive Science. PMID 27666335 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12416  0.489
2016 Yang C, Montrul S. Learning datives: The Tolerance Principle in monolingual and bilingual acquisition Second Language Research. 33: 119-144. DOI: 10.1177/0267658316673686  0.65
2015 Yang C. Negative knowledge from positive evidence Language. 91: 938-953. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2015.0054  0.467
2015 Yang C. The 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science presented to William Labov Journal of the Franklin Institute. 352: 2627-2631. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jfranklin.2015.03.003  0.557
2014 Hauser MD, Yang C, Berwick RC, Tattersall I, Ryan MJ, Watumull J, Chomsky N, Lewontin RC. The mystery of language evolution. Frontiers in Psychology. 5: 401. PMID 24847300 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2014.00401  0.798
2014 Richie R, Yang C, Coppola M. Modeling the emergence of lexicons in homesign systems. Topics in Cognitive Science. 6: 183-95. PMID 24482343 DOI: 10.1111/Tops.12076  0.552
2014 Legate JA, Pesetsky D, Yang C. Recursive misrepresentations: A reply to Levinson (2013) Language. 90: 515-528. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2014.0034  0.726
2013 Yang C. Ontogeny and phylogeny of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 6324-7. PMID 23576720 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1216803110  0.649
2013 Yang C. Who's afraid of George Kingsley Zipf? Or: Do children and chimps have language? Significance. 10: 29-34. DOI: 10.1111/J.1740-9713.2013.00708.X  0.505
2013 Legate JA, Yang C. Assessing Child and Adult Grammar Rich Languages From Poor Inputs. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590339.003.0011  0.702
2012 Yang C. Computational models of syntactic acquisition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science. 3: 205-13. PMID 26301395 DOI: 10.1002/Wcs.1154  0.505
2010 Yang C. Three factors in language variation Lingua. 120: 1160-1177. DOI: 10.1016/J.Lingua.2008.09.015  0.656
2010 Lignos C, Chan E, Marcus MP, Yang C. A rule-based acquisition model adapted for morphological analysis Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 6241: 658-665. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15754-7_79  0.746
2008 Yang C. The Great Number Crunch Journal of Linguistics. 44: 205-228. DOI: 10.1017/S0022226707004999  0.326
2007 Legate JA, Yang C. Morphosyntactic learning and the development of tense Language Acquisition. 14: 315-344. DOI: 10.1080/10489220701471081  0.824
2005 Yang C. On productivity Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2005. 5: 265-302. DOI: 10.1075/livy.5.09yan  0.402
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