S Piantadosi - Lingbuzz Preprint, lingbuzz, 2023 - lingbuzz.net
The rise and success of large language models undermines virtually every strong claim for the innateness of language that has been proposed by generative linguistics. Modern …
observed that “island” structures like “Who do you think [NP the gift from__] prompted the rumor?” or “Who did you hear [NP the statement [S that the CEO promoted__]]?” are not …
We studied the learnability of English filler-gap dependencies and the “island” constraints on them by assessing the generalizations made by autoregressive (incremental) language …
To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …
This paper investigates the ability of multilingual BERT (mBERT) language model to transfer syntactic knowledge cross-lingually, verifying if and to which extent syntactic dependency …
This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …
Adjuncts and relative clauses are traditionally classified as strong islands for extraction across languages. However, the Mainland Scandinavian (MSc.) languages have been …
I Bondevik, D Kush, T Lohndal - Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Finite adjunct clauses are often assumed to be among the strongest islands for filler–gap dependency creation cross-linguistically, but Kush, Lohndal & Sprouse (2019) found …
Going back to Ross (1967) and Chomsky (1973), researchers have sought to understand what conditions permit long-distance dependencies in language, such as between the wh …