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Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

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Preprint Aug 2026

Language Models Generalize to Human-like Word Order Preferences

These findings demonstrate that LMs can recover human-like linguistic generalizations from impoverished input and provide a controlled framework for investigating the mechanisms underlying such biases.

Amanda Popadich, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld · 0 citations

Preprint Jul 2026

Exposure is Optional: Learning Unlike Coordination in Language Models

Analysis of internal representations indicate that language models process unlike coordination by treating the conjoined elements as belonging to similar structural categories or through a mechanism akin to deletion, both of which appear learnable from exposure to alike coordination alone.

Jiamu Luo, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld · 0 citations