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
I am on leave in the Fall of 2013.
Cognitive Science Majors
Professor Russell Epstein will serve as the interim Program
Director for Cognitive Science; please refer to the Majors Page
for information about his office hours and advising schedules.
The permanent contact email address for
Cognitive Science matters will be cogs-pd@sas.upenn.edu.
Emails to my or Professor Epstein's regular Penn email
address may not be answered in a timely fashion.
I will resume the Directorship on January 1st, 2014.
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 graduate student collaborators: Kyle
Gorman, Constantine
Lignos, Jon
Stevens, Russell
Richie.