Adjective ordering across languages

G Scontras - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Adjective ordering preferences stand as perhaps one of the best candidates for a true
linguistic universal: When multiple adjectives are strung together in service of modifying …

Black Big Boxes: Do Language Models Hide a Theory of Adjective Order?

J Jumelet, L Bylinina, W Zuidema… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In English and other languages, multiple adjectives in a complex noun phrase show intricate
ordering patterns that have been a target of much linguistic theory. These patterns offer an …

Evaluating a century of progress on the cognitive science of adjective ordering

W Dyer, C Torres, G Scontras, R Futrell - Transactions of the …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
The literature on adjective ordering abounds with proposals meant to account for why
certain adjectives appear before others in multi-adjective strings (eg, the small brown box) …

Finding structure in language models

J Jumelet - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.16433, 2024 - arxiv.org
When we speak, write or listen, we continuously make predictions based on our knowledge
of a language's grammar. Remarkably, children acquire this grammatical knowledge within …

Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain

W Dyer, R Futrell, Z Liu, G Scontras - arxiv preprint arxiv:2012.15263, 2020 - arxiv.org
Languages vary in their placement of multiple adjectives before, after, or surrounding the
noun, but they typically exhibit strong intra-language tendencies on the relative order of …

Mastering English Multiple Adjectives Ordering among Early versus Late Second Language Speakers: Evidence from Arabic-English Bilinguals

R Albaqami - International Journal of Language and Literary Studies, 2023 - mail.ijlls.org
Recent research has shown that learners demonstrate huge variability in second language
(L2) end-state attainment. While some L2 learners attain native-like command, others only …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling the Ordering of English Adjectives using Collaborative Filtering

S Indurkhya - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
We present a novel procedure for acquiring productive knowledge of restrictions on
adjective ordering from counts of adjectivebigrams, which are readily obtainable from …

Взаимное расположение атрибутивных прилагательных по данным тюркских текстов

PV Grashchenkov - Урало-алтайские исследования, 2023 - ceeol.com
В работе обсуждается проблема моделирования порядка расположения
прилагательных разных семантических классов в теоретической и типологической …