Yang Wang

I am an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics department at University of Utah, speacializing in computational phonology. I received my PhD in Linguistics from UCLA, under the supervision of Tim Hunter and Bruce Hayes.

My research focuses on how the structural properties of natural languages, especially (morpho)phonology, are represented, computed and learned. To address these questions, I seek converging evidence from different methodologies, including traditional/formal linguistic analyses, mathematical investigations, computational modeling, and experimental studies. My dissertation studied the learning and computational properties of morphophonological copying (i.e. reduplication).