Yang Wang

Yang Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Utah, specializing in computational phonology. She received her PhD in Linguistics from UCLA under the supervision of Tim Hunter and Bruce Hayes.

Research Interests:

• Structural properties of natural languages, especially (morpho)phonology
• How linguistic structures are represented, computed and learned
• Converging evidence from traditional/formal linguistic analyses, mathematical investigations, computational modeling, and experimental studies

Her research examines the learning and computational properties of morphophonological copying (i.e. reduplication). Her recent publications focus on the typology of reduplication and regular copying languages.

Professional Activities:

• Presented a poster titled 'The emergent typology of reduplication: Universals and variations in learning biases.' at AMP in November 2024
• Published 'On regular copying languages' in the Journal of Language Modelling in July 2023 (joint work with Tim Hunter)