Rate Professor Charles Yang

Academic Background

Ph.D., Stanford University.

Research Interests

Language acquisition; cognitive science of language; computational linguistics; evolution of language.

Appointments

Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania; co-founder of the Language and Music Lab.

Awards

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; Society of Fellows, Columbia University.

Publications

• The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World, Scribner, 2006.
• The Grammar Network: How We Learn, Teach, and Change Language, Princeton University Press, 2016.

Additional Contributions

Articles in Science, Nature, PNAS; TED speaker.