| Challenge: | linguistics literature has debated whether large multilingual language models learn language universals . Typological generalizations are a key battleground in such debates - e.g. van der Hulst, 2023, chapter 7). |
| Approach: | They consider a candidate universal for language universals, the Final-over-Final Condition . they suggest that modern language models may need additional sources of bias to become truly human-like . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model only seems to recognize the Final-over-Final Condition in German, Russian, Hungarian and Serbian . |
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