Recent demonstrations of statistical learning in infants have reinvigorated the innateness
versus learning debate in language acquisition. This article addresses these issues from both …

… 'Yang's … Charles Yang has succeeded, and in the process illuminates many phenomena
in child language that are perplexing under alternative accounts.' Jill de Villiers 'Charles Yang …

… In this book, drawing an economic analogy, Charles Yang argues that just as the price of …
Supported by a wide range of cases with corpus evidence, Yang's Tolerance Principle gives a …

Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes
that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research on this …

In this article, we propose that the Root Infinitive (RI) phenomenon in child language is best
viewed and explained as the interaction between morphological learning and syntactic …

… Our starting point is a model of language acquisition (Yang, 1999a, 1999b, 2000) which is
able to relate directly and quantitatively the statistical properties of linguistic evidence to the …

Mesocotical dopamine (DA) inputs to the prefrontal cortex (PFC) play a crtical role in normal
cognitive process and neuropsychiatic pathologies. This DA input regulates aspects of …

It is a fact that the child learner does not entertain logically possible but empirically impossible
linguistic hypotheses, despite the absence of sufficient disconfirming evidence. While …

Prefrontal cortical dopamine (DA) modulates pyramidal cell excitability directly and
indirectly by way of its actions on local circuit GABAergic interneurons. DA modulation of …

Dopamine regulates the activity of neural networks in the prefrontal cortex that process
working memory information, but its precise biophysical actions are poorly understood. The …