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Assessing the Impact of Language Disparity on Multilingual Linguistic Ability in Large Language Models
Zhanyu Chen, Jaap Jumelet
Claims about the grammatical competence of multilingual language models vary sharply with how competence is measured, yet the interaction between evaluation paradigm, post-training…
CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child-Adult InTeractions
Francesca Padovani, Xiulin Yang, Bastian Bunzeck +4
CHILDES is a paramount resource for language acquisition studies -- yet computational tools for analyzing its syntactic structure remain limited. Leveraging the recent release of t…
Is Child-Directed Language Optimized for Word Learning? A Computational Study of Verb Meaning Acquisition
Francesca Padovani, Jaap Jumelet, Yevgen Matusevych +1
Is child-directed language (CDL) optimized to support language learning, and which aspects of linguistic development does it facilitate? We investigate this question using neural l…
Vocabulary shapes cross-lingual variation of word-order learnability in language models
Jonas Mayer Martins, Jaap Jumelet, Viola Priesemann +1
Why do some languages like Czech permit free word order, while others like English do not? We address this question by pretraining transformer language models on a spectrum of synt…
BabyLM Turns 4 and Goes Multilingual: Call for Papers for the 2026 BabyLM Workshop
Leshem Choshen, Ryan Cotterell, Mustafa Omer Gul +7
The goal of the BabyLM is to stimulate new research connections between cognitive modeling and language model pretraining. We invite contributions in this vein to the BabyLM Worksh…