Dissociating language and thought in large language models

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank, N Kanwisher… - Trends in cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split …

Syntactic structure from deep learning

T Linzen, M Baroni - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Modern deep neural networks achieve impressive performance in engineering applications
that require extensive linguistic skills, such as machine translation. This success has …

Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models

A Goldstein, Z Zada, E Buchnik, M Schain, A Price… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Departing from traditional linguistic models, advances in deep learning have resulted in a
new type of predictive (autoregressive) deep language models (DLMs). Using a self …

Large language models demonstrate the potential of statistical learning in language

P Contreras Kallens… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To what degree can language be acquired from linguistic input alone? This question has
vexed scholars for millennia and is still a major focus of debate in the cognitive science of …

[KNJIGA][B] The constructicon: Taxonomies and networks

H Diessel - 2023 - cambridge.org
It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in
some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of …

[KNJIGA][B] Constructionist approaches: Past, present, future

T Ungerer, S Hartmann - 2023 - cambridge.org
Summary Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse
family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, ie form-meaning …

Compositionality and generalization in emergent languages

R Chaabouni, E Kharitonov, D Bouchacourt… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Natural language allows us to refer to novel composite concepts by combining expressions
denoting their parts according to systematic rules, a property known as\emph …

On the proper role of linguistically oriented deep net analysis in linguistic theorising

M Baroni - Algebraic structures in natural language, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
A lively research field has recently emerged that uses experimental methods to probe the
linguistic behaviour of modern deep networks. While work in this tradition often reports …

Good-enough language production

AE Goldberg, F Ferreira - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Our ability to comprehend and produce language is one of humans' most impressive skills,
but it is not flawless. We must convey and interpret messages via a noisy channel in ever …

Biological constraints on neural network models of cognitive function

F Pulvermüller, R Tomasello… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Neural network models are potential tools for improving our understanding of complex brain
functions. To address this goal, these models need to be neurobiologically realistic …