2 papers
cs.CL2026
Where's the Indirect Evidence? Investigating Grammatical Generalization with Influence Functions
William Dai, Zhenghao Herbert Zhou, Maya Viswanathan +1
Language models generalize beyond their training corpus to learn linguistic phenomena (Patil et al., 2024; Misra and Mahowald, 2024), showing that there exists indirect evidence dr…
cs.CL2026
What Exactly do Children Receive in Language Acquisition? A Case Study on CHILDES with Automated Detection of Filler-Gap Dependencies
Zhenghao Herbert Zhou, William Dai, Maya Viswanathan +3
Children's acquisition of filler-gap dependencies has been argued by some to depend on innate grammatical knowledge, while others suggest that the distributional evidence available…