2 papers
cs.CL2026
A Computational Operationalisation of Competing Maturational Theories of Syntactic Development via Statistical Grammar Induction
Mila Marcheva, Suchir Salhan, Weiwei Sun
This paper is concerned with what intermediate syntactic categories children acquire during first language development, and in what order. Maturational theories make different pred…
cs.CL2025
BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data
Jaap Jumelet, Abdellah Fourtassi, Akari Haga +23
We present BabyBabelLM, a multilingual collection of datasets modeling the language a person observes from birth until they acquire a native language. We curate developmentally pla…