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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 9 • 2026
Editors' Note
Papers
Adaptive Speech Perception: Empirical Indeterminacy and a Path Forward
Shawn N Cummings, T. Florian Jaeger, Chigusa Kurumada and Xin Xie
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
A Family of Effective Methods for Decompiling Canonical Acceptors, Instantiated for Languages of Dot-Depth One and Tier-Based Extensions
Dakotah Lambert
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
A Feature-Driven Tensor Semantics for Minimalist Grammars
John Edward Paulson, Aniello De Santo and Jonathan Rawski
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
A Logical Analysis of Autosegmental Approaches to Root-and-Pattern Morphology in Arabic
Sarah Payne
2026-07-02 Volume 9 • 2026
An LLM Investigation into Inherent and Structural Case Representation: a German Case Study
Iona Carslaw, András Bárány, Itamar Kastner and Mark Steedman
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Are syntactic categories ISL-2 inferrable? A corpus study
Logan Swanson, Kenneth Hanson and Thomas Graf
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
A Transparent Model of Syntactic and Semantic Cue-based Retrieval
Shisen Yue and John Hale
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Can language models process linguistic deference?
Youngdong Cho and Chloe Kwon
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
Comonadic Morphophonology: A Compositional Framework for Context-Dependent Morphological Rules in Finnish
Yongseok Jang
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Compiling Search & Change Rules into Subsequential Finite-State Transducers
Malek Azadegan
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Determinants of Hesitations and Repetitions in Hindi Spontaneous Speech
Eashani Sharma, Ishita Arun and Samar Husain
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
Do I know what I want to say? Modeling meaning uncertainty in RSA
Anzi Wang, Grusha Prasad and Carolyn Jane Anderson
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
Do Large Language Models Acquire Phrase-Based Processing? Evidence from Eye Movements and Model-Brain Alignment After Fine-Tuning
XUFENG DUAN, Zhengwu Ma, Zhaoqian Yao, Jixing Li and Zhenguang Cai
2026-06-28 Volume 9 • 2026
Effect of case markers during agreement production: A model comparison using Armenian forced choice data
Pranab Bagartti and Samar Husain
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
Efficient universal generation in a fragment of Optimality Theory
Paul Karl Siewert
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
Examining the Limits of Word2Vec with Toki Pona
Daniel Zhenhan Huang and Hongchen Wu
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
Frequency modulates structural choice in Turkish suspended affixation: a latent-process account
Utku Türk, Eva Neu, Özge Bakay, Brian Dillon and Gaja Jarosz
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
Graded Expectations: Do Large Language Models Show Human-like Sensitivity to the Likelihood of Deceptive Speech Acts?
Xingyuan Zhao and Seana Coulson
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Investigating Syntactic Biases in Multilingual Transformers with RC Attachment Ambiguities in Italian and English
Michael Kamerath and Aniello De Santo
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Learning Latent Representations with Progressive Hypothesis Space Expansion
Jonathan Charles Paramore
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Learning Process Interaction Through Simplex ISL Transducers
Chenli Wang and Adam Jardine
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Learning Stress in Arabic Low-Resource Settings
Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Owen Rambow, Jordan Kodner, Jeffrey Heinz and Salam Khalifa
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Learning tone sandhis in Structural Optimality
Izabel Ilie, Andrew Lamont and Brandon Prickett
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Lexical exceptionality in paradigm-specific learning: modeling stem-final obstruent alternations in Korean verbs and adjectives
Stella Eunsoo Hong
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
Measuring Perceptions of Personhood with Semantic Proto-role Properties
Elizabeth Spaulding Hoefer and James Martin
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
Modeling generalization in perceptual learning of speech
YIMING LU, Xinyu Leslie Liao, Alejandro Tabas and Xin Xie
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Modelling the Diachronic Emergence of Phoneme Frequency Distributions
Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin and Suchir Salhan
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Morpheme structure phonotactics: a categorical model for morpho-phonological productivity in Russian vowel-zero alternations
Daniar Kasenov
2026-06-28 Volume 9 • 2026
Non-literal Meaning Representation in the Brain during Naturalistic Listening
Zhengwu Ma, Yuhan Huang, Chengcheng Wang and Jixing Li
2026-06-28 Volume 9 • 2026
Omnivorous Agreement, like Uyghur Backness Harmony, is a Challenge for Tier-Based Strict Locality
Allison Verbil and Tim Hunter
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Phonological Processes as Modal Transductions
Tatevik Yolyan and Jesse Comer
2026-06-28 Volume 9 • 2026
Quantifying the cross-linguistic effects of syncretism on agreement attraction
Utku Türk and Eva Neu
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Rating-based property axes: Agentivity and split intransitivity
Eva Neu, Brian Dillon and Katrin Erk
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Roles of Predictability and Acoustic Distance in Sound Discrimination via Contrastive Learning
Shuhao Zhang and Youngah Do
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Small Neural Networks as Models of Cross-Linguistic Speech Perception
Annika Shankwitz
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
The Development of Spectral and Temporal Encodings in Speech Sounds
Frank Lihui Tan and Youngah Do
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Word Predictability on Code-switching Points in Cantonese–English Discourse
Ariel Chan, Yanting Li and Jacob Poschl
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
Abstracts
Beyond linearity and beyond English: Language model performance on Korean NPI licensing
Soo-Hwan Lee, Chanyoung Lee and Gyu-Ho Shin
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Do LLMs Understand Anaphora Accessibility?
Xiaomeng Zhu, Zhenghao Zhou, Simon Charlow and Robert Frank
2026-06-23 Volume 9 • 2026
How much capacity does Turkish inflection require? An empirical study of GRU encoder--decoder bottlenecks
Frédéric "Fred" Mailhot
2026-06-28 Volume 9 • 2026
Learning reduplicative templates as hidden structures: the case of reduplication-phonology interactions
Yang Wang
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Making "concreteness" more concrete
Yanting Li, Gregory Scontras and Richard Futrell
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Mapping the meaning of Hungarian impulsative constructions
Ágnes Kalivoda, Rob Malouf and Farrell Ackerman
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
MaxEnt fails at reasoning by transitivity
Arto Tapani Anttila and Giorgio Magri
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Mind the Gap: Computational Quality Assurance of Crowd-Sourced Linguistic Knowledge on Latin and Italian Morphological Gaps
Jonathan Sakunkoo and Annabella Sakunkoo
2026-06-23 Volume 9 • 2026
Propositional compositionality in neural language models
Jane Li, Abhinav Patil and Kyle Rawlins
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026
Quantifying mutual intelligibility gradients in Turkic languages using language models
Moldir Baidildinova, Shiva Upadhye, Austin Wagner, Connor Mayer and Richard Futrell
2026-06-27 Volume 9 • 2026
The Spanish Learner and Heritage Speaker Dependency Treebank
Valeria Pagliai, Sergio José Salazar Rodó, Emiliana Pulido, Andres Gutierrez-Quintero and Zoey Liu
2026-06-26 Volume 9 • 2026