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cs.CL2026
Noisy memory encoding explains negative polarity illusions
Yuhan Zhang, Edward Gibson
A sentence like "The authors that no critics recommended have ever received acknowledgment for a best-selling novel" is sometimes rated as acceptable even though, strictly speaking…
cs.CL2026
Readers make targeted regressions to plausible errors in reanalysis of "noisy-channel garden-path" sentences
Thomas Hikaru Clark, Roger Levy, Edward Gibson
A key question in psycholinguistics is how inferences about the meaning of linguistic input unfold incrementally a comprehender's mind. In this work, we study reading dynamics for…
cs.CL2024
Can Language Models Be Tricked by Language Illusions? Easier with Syntax, Harder with Semantics
Yuhan Zhang, Edward Gibson, Forrest Davis
Language models (LMs) have been argued to overlap substantially with human beings in grammaticality judgment tasks. But when humans systematically make errors in language processin…