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
BLiSS 1.0: Evaluating Bilingual Learner Competence in Second Language Small Language Models
Yuan Gao, Suchir Salhan, Andrew Caines +2
To bridge the gap between performance-oriented benchmarks and the evaluation of cognitively inspired models, we introduce BLiSS 1.0, a Benchmark of Learner Interlingual Syntactic S…