2 papers
cs.CL2026
Function Words as Statistical Cues for Language Learning
Xiulin Yang, Heidi Getz, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
What statistical properties might support learning abstract grammatical knowledge from linear input? We address this question by examining the statistical distribution of function…
cs.CL2026
A Unified Assessment of the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument for Neural Language Models
Xiulin Yang, Arianna Bisazza, Nathan Schneider +1
Several recent contributions have evaluated the Poverty of the Stimulus Hypothesis (PoSH) using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The results suggest that ANN-based language model…