2 papers
cs.CL2025
Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning In German BabyLMs?
Bastian Bunzeck, Daniel Duran, Sina ZarrieÃ
We analyze the influence of utterance-level construction distributions in German child-directed/child-available speech on the resulting word-level, syntactic and semantic competenc…
cs.CL2025
Small Language Models Also Work With Small Vocabularies: Probing the Linguistic Abilities of Grapheme- and Phoneme-Based Baby Llamas
Bastian Bunzeck, Daniel Duran, Leonie Schade +1
Recent work investigates whether LMs learn human-like linguistic generalizations and representations from developmentally plausible amounts of data. Yet, the basic linguistic units…