Charles Yang
(Ph.D. in Computer Science, MIT 2000)
Department of Linguistics, Computer Science &
Psychology
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email: charles.yangâť‚ling.upenn.edu
Office: Williams 608
Phone: 215-898-7849
Cognitive Science Majors
I am the Director of Undergraduate
Studies in Cognitive Science, and my regular office hours
for Cognitive Science advising is Tuesday
3:00-4:30pm at the Institute
for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS), Rm 477, 3401
Walnut Street.
I am usually in the my Williams Hall 608 office at other times.
When email, it's best to use your official Penn email address as
messages from other accounts are sometimes filed away by my spam
filters.
Research & Teaching Interests
- Language acquisition,
processing, and change
- Morphology and the mental
lexicon
- Computational linguistics
- The evolution of language
and cognition
I did my graduate work with Bob
Berwick and Noam
Chomsky in the MIT
AI Lab, an incredibly fun place. I then took up a faculty
position in linguistics and psychology at Yale. I moved to Penn in
2006 to join a uniquely interdisciplinary community for language
and cognitive science research.
The
Infinite Gift
Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language
Some
Research Papers
Recent student collaborators: Kyle
Gorman, Constantine
Lignos, Jon
Stevens