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A Distributional Perspective on Word Learning in Neural Language Models
Filippo Ficarra, Ryan Cotterell, Alex Warstadt
Language models (LMs) are increasingly being studied as models of human language learners. Due to the nascency of the field, it is not well-established whether LMs exhibit similar…
Investigating Critical Period Effects in Language Acquisition through Neural Language Models
Ionut Constantinescu, Tiago Pimentel, Ryan Cotterell +1
Humans appear to have a critical period (CP) for language acquisition: Second language (L2) acquisition becomes harder after early childhood, and ceasing exposure to a first langua…
Automatic Annotation of Grammaticality in Child-Caregiver Conversations
Mitja Nikolaus, Abhishek Agrawal, Petros Kaklamanis +2
The acquisition of grammar has been a central question to adjudicate between theories of language acquisition. In order to conduct faster, more reproducible, and larger-scale corpu…
Call for Papers -- The BabyLM Challenge: Sample-efficient pretraining on a developmentally plausible corpus
Alex Warstadt, Leshem Choshen, Aaron Mueller +3
We present the call for papers for the BabyLM Challenge: Sample-efficient pretraining on a developmentally plausible corpus. This shared task is intended for participants with an i…