Papers by Xueyang Huang
Mind the Gap: How BabyLMs Learn Filler-Gap Dependencies (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a long-standing debate concerns whether the linguistic input children receive is sufficient to explain the grammatical knowledge they develop. |
| Approach: | They evaluate baby language models trained on child-oriented input from the BabyLM Challenge and two base models trained in 10M and 100M tokens. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models acquire filler-gap dependencies but fail to generalize or fully capture island constraints. |