Dissociating language and thought in large language models

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank, N Kanwisher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split …

Parsing the late-closure ambiguity: While Schrödinger measured the cat escaped from the box

Z Qian, GS Dell - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024 - Springer
An experiment investigated the" good-enough" processing account regarding how people
parse sentences with late-closure ambiguity, such as While Anna dressed the baby who was …

Are the P600 and P3 ERP components linked to the task‐evoked pupillary response as a correlate of norepinephrine activity?

F Contier, I Wartenburger, M Weymar… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
During language comprehension, anomalies and ambiguities in the input typically elicit the
P600 event‐related potential component. Although traditionally interpreted as a specific …

An information-theoretic model of shallow and deep language comprehension

J Li, R Futrell - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.08223, 2024 - arxiv.org
A large body of work in psycholinguistics has focused on the idea that online language
comprehension can be shallow orgood enough': given constraints on time or available …

Word Internal Structure in Chinese: Event Structure, Predicate-Argument Structure and Categories in Separable Verbs

TC Kao - 2024 - open.metu.edu.tr
The study of Chinese separable verbs has long been one of the unresolved and under-
debated challenges in the field of Chinese linguistics due to their indivisible semantics, yet …

Probabilistic and Selectional Biases in Ambiguity Resolution during Real-time Sentence Processing

H Fujita - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive …, 2024 - escholarship.org
This study examines the influence of lexical frequency bias and selectional constraints on
the resolution of complement ambiguity during sentence processing. Some argue that in …

[PDF][PDF] Productive knowledge and item-specific knowledge trade off as a function of frequency in multiword expression processing

E Morgan, R Levy - scholar.archive.org
How do productive linguistic knowledge and knowledge of item-specific usage preferences
jointly contribute to language processing? We investigated this using the test case of …