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cs.CL2025
The Emergence of Grammar through Reinforcement Learning
Stephen Wechsler, James W. Shearer, Katrin Erk
The evolution of grammatical systems of syntactic and semantic composition is modeled here with a novel application of reinforcement learning theory. To test the functionalist thes…
cs.CL2024
Participle-Prepended Nominals Have Lower Entropy Than Nominals Appended After the Participle
Kristie Denlinger, Stephen Wechsler, Kyle Mahowald
English allows for both compounds (e.g., London-made) and phrasal paraphrases (e.g., made in London). While these constructions have roughly the same truth-conditional meaning, we…