2 papers
cs.CL2026
Trivial Vocabulary Bans Improve LLM Reasoning More Than Deep Linguistic Constraints
Rodney Jehu-Appiah
A previous study reported that E-Prime (English without the verb "to be") selectively altered reasoning in language models, with cross-model correlations suggesting a structural si…
cs.CL2026
Umwelt Engineering: Designing the Cognitive Worlds of Linguistic Agents
Rodney Jehu-Appiah
I propose Umwelt engineering -- the deliberate design of the linguistic cognitive environment -- as a third layer in the agent design stack, upstream of both prompt and context eng…