Charles Yang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Charles Yang plays a role.
2022 Chapter 4. The threshold of productivity and the ‘irregularization’ of verbs in Early Modern English English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning, Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 91–112 | Chapter
This paper tests whether Yang’s Tolerance Principle (TP) is useful in explaining one type of morphological change in the history of English. We suggest that some, but not all, innovative non-default past tenses that appear in the written record between 1500 and 1700 can be explained by the TP… read more
2018 A formalist perspective on language acquisition Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang, pp. 665–706 | Article
Language acquisition is a computational process by which linguistic experience is integrated into the learner’s initial stage of knowledge. To understand language acquisition thus requires precise statements about these components and their interplay, stepping beyond the philosophical and… read more
2005 On productivity Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2005, Pica, Pierre, Johan Rooryck and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (eds.), pp. 265–302 | Article
Language learning is a remarkably robust process. The child is incredibly good at recognizing systematic regularities even when faced with lexically and contextually restricted exceptions This paper sketches out a preliminary model that recognizes productive processes and exceptions as such;… read more