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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

BMRS-Net: Learning BMRS Predicates as Decision Trees

Yifan Hu

2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 15 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

Formalizing Feature Inheritance

Gregory Kobele and Lei Liu

2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 7 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

Adjunction in (T)SL Syntax

Kenneth Hanson

2025-06-13 Volume 8 • 2025 • 11 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

Creating a Digital Keyboard for Itunyoso Triqui

Kayla Shames

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

CNNs that robustly compute vowel harmony do not explicitly represent phonological tiers

Jane Li and Alan Tiantian Zhou

2025-06-14 Volume 8 • 2025 • 2 pages

Generics are puzzling. Can language models find the missing piece?

Gustavo Cilleruelo, Emily Allaway, Barry Haddow and Alexandra Birch

2025-06-23 Volume 8 • 2025 • 3 pages