arXiv:2603.03510v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: This study investigates the diverse characteristics of nouns, focusing on both semantic (e.g., countable/uncountable) and morphosyntactic (e....
By Mohamed El Idrissi
This article tackles an important phenomenon in the syntax of Yemeni Ibbi Arabic (YIA), viz. , wh-agreement, a phenomenon common to several languages including Greek, Indonesian, Lubukusu, Irish, etc.
The article examines how Byte‑Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization handles Polish, an inflectional language, and finds that BPE tends to stabilize frequent surface fragments of grammatical exponents rather than true grammatical categories. It introduces the concept of grammatical form anchoring, showing that certain Polish verb forms can signal the speaking subject without an explicit pronoun, and highlights that language models may lack a stable grammatical "I" and can shift gender or mirror user forms. The study proposes Roclawski’s segmentation‑flexional forms as a diagnostic framework and suggests that more stable Polish modeling would require sublexical stabilization, anchoring grammatical form in the inflectional system, and maintaining the grammatical "I" in dialogue.
By Elzbieta Dawidek (University of Lower Silesia DSW Ideis)
arXiv:2607. 18961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) generate fluent text by incrementally predicting the next token from a prefix.
By Remo Pareschi
Language models trained on tokenized text still reliably produce morphemes whose form depends on phonology, but it was unclear whether this relies on memorization or rule-like generalization. The study shows that for the English indefinite article a/an, the phonological condition is encoded along a single linear direction in trigger-token embeddings, causally drives article selection in token-level wug tests, and is used by the model to forecast the upcoming trigger token’s phonological feature for article choice. The authors further investigate whether this rule-like generalization extends to allomorph selection in other languages and to explicit phonological judgment, offering a mechanistic account that separates generation-time ability from metalinguistic judgments.
By Sangwoo Kim, Sangah Lee
arXiv:2609.37635v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: LLMs have been studied in recent linguistics as potential models of humans' linguistic abilities. Here we discuss an entirely different use of AI, name...
By Emmanuel Chemla, Benjamin Spector, Alexandros Kalomoiros, Philippe Schlenker