Challenge: e.g., stew skillet, swamp squash) are not fully compositional, but highly predictable based on whether the modifier and head refer to artifacts or natural kinds.
Approach: They propose to compare the interpretations of novel English noun compounds with the large language model GPT-3, which is governed by interpretive principles.
Outcome: The results show that the large language model GPT-3 reasoning only about specific lexical items is consistent with the Levin et al.'s theory.

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