The limitations of large language models for understanding human language and cognition

C Cuskley, R Woods, M Flaherty - Open Mind, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Researchers have recently argued that the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs)
can provide new insights into longstanding debates about the role of learning and/or …

Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping

V Hacquard - Journal of Child Language, 2023 - cambridge.org
Words have meanings vastly undetermined by the contexts in which they occur. Their
acquisition therefore presents formidable problems of induction. Lila Gleitman and …

The importance of modeling pragmatic syntactic bootstrapping

TH Mintz - Journal of Child Language, 2023 - cambridge.org
Syntactic bootstrapping is based on the premise that there are probabilistic
correspondences between the syntactic structure in which a word occurs and the word's …