About this Journal
The Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) is devoted to facilitating and promoting research on computational and mathematical approaches in Linguistics. SCiL aims to provide a central forum for exchange of ideas and dissemination of original research results on computational approaches in any area of linguistics. In addition to providing a forum for researchers already working in these areas, SCiL hosts regular meetings (the first of which was co-located with LSA 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah) that feature high-quality research presentations and peer-reviewed proceedings published with the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Anthology as well as in our own standalone open access publication, the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
Volume 8 • 2025
Editors' Note
Editors' Note
Carolyn Jane Anderson, Frédéric "Fred" Mailhot and Grusha Prasad
2025-06-24 Volume 8 • 2025 • 1 page
Papers
Language Learning as Codebreaking: The Key Roles of Redundancy and Locality
Richard Futrell
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 10 pages
Measuring the Impact of Segmental Deviation on Perceptions of Accentedness using Gradient Phonological Class Features
Nitin Venkateswaran, Rachel Meyer and Ratree Wayland
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 12 pages
Is analogy enough to draw novel adjective-noun inferences?
Hayley Ross, Kathryn Davidson and Najoung Kim
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 17 pages
Reconciling categorical and gradient models of phonotactics
Connor Mayer
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 11 pages
Dimensions of (dis)preference in designing polar answers in American English: A latent class analysis
Ryan Ka Yau Lai and Yan Lashchev
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 16 pages
Annotator disagreement in RST annotation schemes
Daniil Ignatev, Denis Paperno and Massimo Poesio
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 16 pages
Intonation as a quantifier-free logical interpretation of metrical and prosodic structure
Hyunjung Joo and Adam Jardine
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 10 pages
Similarity, Transformation and the Newly Found Invariance of Influence Functions
Andrew Yuan Liu and Gerald Penn
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 13 pages
BERT's Conceptual Cartography: Mapping the Landscapes of Meaning
Nina Haket and Ryan Daniels
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 17 pages
MGEN: Millions of Naturally Occurring Generics in Context
Gustavo Cilleruelo, Emily Allaway, Barry Haddow and Alexandra Birch
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 17 pages
Automatic Extraction of Clausal Embedding Based on Large-Scale English Text Data
Iona Carslaw, Sivan Milton, Nicolas Navarre, Ciyang Qing and Wataru Uegaki
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 11 pages
Sparks of Pure Competence in LLMs: the Case of Syntactic Center Embedding in English
Daniel Hardt
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 10 pages
Discourse Sensitivity in Attraction Effects: The Interplay Between Language Model Size and Training Data
Sanghee Kim and Forrest Davis
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 13 pages
The Logic of Linearization: Interpretations of Trees via Strings
Vincent Czarnecki
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 10 pages
Aligning Embedding Spaces Across Languages to Identify Word Level Equivalents in the Context of Concreteness and Emotion
Josephine Kaminaga, Jingyi Wu, Daniel Yeung and Simon Todd
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 10 pages
A Theory of When and How Learners Construct Tiers: Implications for Opaque and Transparent Vowels
Caleb Belth
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 11 pages
Evidence of Hierarchically-Complex Syntactic Structure Within BERT’s Word Representations
Mary Kathryn Kennedy
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 16 pages
Are syntactic categories ISL-2 inferrable? A corpus study
Logan Swanson, Kenneth Hanson and Thomas Graf
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 11 pages
A LSTM language model learns Hindi-Urdu case-agreement interactions, and has a linear encoding of case
Satoru Ozaki, Rajesh Bhatt and Brian Dillon
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 10 pages
Modeling sentence polarity asymmetries: Fuzzy interpretations in a possibly wonky world
Muxuan He, Elsi Kaiser and Khalil Iskarous
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 10 pages
Automata for subregular syntax: Syntax with strings attached
Thomas Graf and Kenneth Hanson
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 13 pages
Integrating Neural and Symbolic Components in a Model of Pragmatic Question-Answering
Polina Tsvilodub, Robert D. Hawkins and Michael Franke
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 16 pages
Left-corner Minimalist parsing of mixed word order preferences
Lei Liu
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 9 pages
On the Dangers of Naïve Replication: The Case of Implicature
Anil Korde and Philip Resnik
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 12 pages
Learning Covert URs via Disparity Minimization
Jonathan Charles Paramore
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 11 pages
A Cross-Genre Analysis of Discourse Relation Signaling in the GUM Corpus
Lauren Levine
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 9 pages
Abstracts
A principled derivation of OT and HG within constraint-based phonology
Giorgio Magri
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 2 pages
Strict domination in probabilistic phonology
Edward Flemming and Giorgio Magri
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 2 pages
Do LLMs Disambiguate Italian Relative Clause Attachment?
Michael Kamerath and Aniello De Santo
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 2 pages
Explaining differences between phonotactic learning biases in the lab and typological trends using Probabilistic Feature Attention
Brandon Prickett
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 4 pages
Investigating the Probability of External Causation in Hindi Light Verb Constructions
Kanishka Jain and Ashwini Vaidya
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 3 pages
Do LLMs Understand Anaphora Accessibility?
Xiaomeng Zhu, Zhenghao Zhou, Simon Charlow and Robert Frank
2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 5 pages
Aspectual classes as lexically-conditioned predictors of aspectual choice
Laurestine Bradford
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 4 pages
(RSA)^2: A Rhetorical-Strategy-Aware Rational Speech Act Framework for Figurative Language Understanding
Cesare Spinoso-Di Piano
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 2 pages
Unlocking finite-state morphological transducers: Derivational networks for Inuit-Yupik languages
Coleman Haley
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 3 pages
Visual groundedness as an organizing principle for word class: Evidence from Japanese
Coleman Haley, Sharon Goldwater and Edoardo Ponti
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 3 pages
Self-Supervised Speech Representations in a Pre-train Speech Model Represent Key Rapid Automatized Naming Variability in Autism
Sarah Ethridge, Joe Lau, Bronya R. Chernyak, Robert Voigt, Matt Goldrick, Joseph Keshet and Molly Losh
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 3 pages
Pragmatic Competence in LLMs: The Case of Eliciture
Dingyi Pan and Andrew Kehler
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 4 pages
semantic-features: A User-Friendly Tool for Studying Contextual Word Embeddings in Interpretable Semantic Spaces
Jwalanthi Ranganathan, Rohan Jha, Kanishka Misra and Kyle Mahowald
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 5 pages
Empirical Analysis of Russian Aspectual Prefixes: A Computational Approach to Productivity & Semantic Relatedness
Natalia Tyulina
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 5 pages
The Unnatural Language ToolKit (ULTK)
Nathaniel Imel, Christopher Haberland and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 4 pages
Mind the Gap: Computational Quality Assurance of Crowd-Sourced Linguistic Knowledge on Latin and Italian Morphological Gaps
Jonathan Sakunkoo, Annabella Sakunkoo and Annabella Sakunkoo
2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 2 pages