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Volume 9 • 2026

Editors' Note


Editors' Note

Rob Voigt, Alex Warstadt, Naomi Feldman and Tal Linzen

2026-06-28 Volume 9 • 2026

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

Algebraic Classification of Reduplicative Processes

Matthew Hayden

2026-06-27 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 Covert URs via Disparity Minimization

Jonathan Charles Paramore

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

Output Languages of Strictly Local Phonological Processes

Anton Hampe

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

What Matters in Tonotactic Learning

Han Li and Jeffrey Heinz

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

Fine-tuning Whisper Across 81 Languages

Shivam Singh and Alex Warstadt

2026-06-26 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