The Deontic Gap: Large Language Models and the Modal Language of Obligation
Modal auxiliaries such as must, should, and have to mark necessity and obligation within the contexts of speaker authority and interpersonal stance. We examine whether large language models (LLMs) reproduce contemporary human patterns of deontic modal usage. Across three primary corpora, an external benchmark, two cont...
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