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Neural Language Models’ sensitivity to long-distance dependencies and their island constraints is not universal: a comparison between English and Dutch humans and models

2026-07-01

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<p>A much-debated question in linguistics is whether learning language, specifically grammar, requires a language-specific learning capacity or can be achieved from input alone through domain-general mechanisms. The current study adds to this debate by testing whether Neural language models (NLMs), which learn solely from input and their non-linguistic inductive biases, without any built-in linguistic representati...

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Literature Corpus work: 341d8ef0-5224-51c3-a80a-4ba22d14345e
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pk7e3_v4

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