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Evaluating Neural Language Models as Cognitive Models of Language Acquisition
Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez, Annika Lea Heuser, Charles Yang +1
The success of neural language models (LMs) on many technological tasks has brought about their potential relevance as scientific theories of language despite some clear difference…
Exploring Linguistic Probes for Morphological Generalization
Jordan Kodner, Salam Khalifa, Sarah Payne
Modern work on the cross-linguistic computational modeling of morphological inflection has typically employed language-independent data splitting algorithms. In this paper, we supp…
Why Linguistics Will Thrive in the 21st Century: A Reply to Piantadosi (2023)
Jordan Kodner, Sarah Payne, Jeffrey Heinz
We present a critical assessment of Piantadosi's (2023) claim that "Modern language models refute Chomsky's approach to language," focusing on four main points. First, despite the…
Morphological Inflection: A Reality Check
Jordan Kodner, Sarah Payne, Salam Khalifa +1
Morphological inflection is a popular task in sub-word NLP with both practical and cognitive applications. For years now, state-of-the-art systems have reported high, but also high…