Charles Yang

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Charles Yang is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Yang has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 22 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 21 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Charles Yang's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (27 papers), Language Development and Disorders (18 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (17 papers). Charles Yang is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (27 papers), Language Development and Disorders (18 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (17 papers). Charles Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Charles Yang's co-authors include Julie Anne Legate, Robert C. Berwick, Noam Chomsky, Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey Watumull, Michael A. Hauser, Michael J. Ryan, Richard C Lewontin, Johan J. Bolhuis and Stephen Crain and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Charles Yang

51 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2016 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language
    2003 299 citations Charles Yang profile →
  2. The Price of Linguistic Productivity
    2016 129 citations Charles Yang profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Charles Yang United States 20 1.0k 817 635 488 472 54 1.9k
Peter W. Culicover United States 25 524 0.5× 1.7k 2.1× 933 1.5× 376 0.8× 628 1.3× 62 2.4k
Frederick J. Newmeyer United States 27 757 0.8× 2.1k 2.5× 948 1.5× 531 1.1× 996 2.1× 100 3.3k
Richard Futrell United States 23 521 0.5× 458 0.6× 794 1.3× 295 0.6× 449 1.0× 69 1.8k
Nina Hyams United States 15 962 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 388 0.6× 159 0.3× 399 0.8× 38 1.8k
Jeffrey Lidz United States 27 1.7k 1.7× 899 1.1× 543 0.9× 261 0.5× 516 1.1× 117 2.6k
David Pesetsky United States 19 783 0.8× 1.4k 1.7× 735 1.2× 159 0.3× 727 1.5× 28 2.5k
Kyle Mahowald United States 19 452 0.5× 356 0.4× 622 1.0× 279 0.6× 427 0.9× 45 1.7k
Thomas Roeper United States 17 670 0.7× 828 1.0× 355 0.6× 131 0.3× 340 0.7× 58 1.4k
Andrew Radford United Kingdom 20 651 0.6× 1.5k 1.9× 607 1.0× 151 0.3× 445 0.9× 76 2.2k
Juan Uriagereka United States 20 299 0.3× 2.3k 2.8× 1.0k 1.6× 392 0.8× 690 1.5× 65 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Charles Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Charles Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charles Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Charles Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Charles Yang based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Charles Yang. Charles Yang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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VanOrman, Zachary A., et al.. (2025). Lead the Way: Halide Perovskites as Next-Generation Triplet Sensitizers for Photon Upconversion. Chemical Reviews. 125(23). 11426–11460. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Charles. (2023). A User’s Defense of the Tolerance Principle: Reply to Enger (2022). Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (PBB). 145(4). 563–579.
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Yang, Charles, et al.. (2021). Memory Constraints on Cross Situational Word Learning. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints).
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Yang, Charles, et al.. (2020). Miller's monkey updated: Communicative efficiency and the statistics of words in natural language. Cognition. 205. 104466–104466. 11 indexed citations
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Fruehwald, Josef, et al.. (2019). Using the Tolerance Principle to predict phonological change. Language Variation and Change. 31(1). 1–20. 8 indexed citations
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Xu, Hongzhi, Mitchell P. Marcus, Charles Yang, & Lyle Ungar. (2018). Unsupervised Morphology Learning with Statistical Paradigms. International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 44–54. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Charles. (2018). A formalist perspective on language acquisition. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 8(6). 665–706. 37 indexed citations
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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan & Charles Yang. (2016). Statistical evidence that a child can create a combinatorial linguistic system without external linguistic input: Implications for language evolution. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 81(Pt B). 150–157. 12 indexed citations
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Yang, Charles. (2015). Negative Knowledge from Positive Evidence. Language. 91(4). 938–953. 23 indexed citations
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Legate, Julie Anne, David Pesetsky, & Charles Yang. (2014). Recursive misrepresentations: A reply to Levinson (2013). Language. 90(2). 515–528. 7 indexed citations
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Hauser, Michael A., Charles Yang, Robert C. Berwick, et al.. (2014). The mystery of language evolution. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 401–401. 162 indexed citations
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Richie, Russell, Charles Yang, & Marie Coppola. (2013). Modeling the Emergence of Lexicons in Homesign Systems.. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Charles. (2011). A Statistical Test for Grammar. Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 30–38. 9 indexed citations
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Yang, Charles. (2011). Computational models of syntactic acquisition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 3(2). 205–213. 21 indexed citations
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Lignos, Constantine & Charles Yang. (2010). Recession Segmentation: Simpler Online Word Segmentation Using Limited Resources. 88–97. 13 indexed citations
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Lignos, Constantine, et al.. (2009). A Rule-Based Unsupervised Morphology Learning Framework.. CLEF (Working Notes). 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Charles. (2008). The great number crunch. Journal of Linguistics. 44(1). 205–228. 17 indexed citations
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Yang, Charles. (2004). Universal Grammar, statistics or both?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 8(10). 451–456. 275 indexed citations
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Yang, Charles, Carl R. Knospe, & Panagiotis Tsiotras. (1998). Optimal control of a magnetic bearing without bias flux using finite voltage. Optimal Control Applications and Methods. 19(4). 227–246. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Charles & Robert C. Berwick. (1996). Principle-based Parsing for Chinese. Waseda University Repository (Waseda University). 363–371. 1 indexed citations

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