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Xiao-Meng Zhu

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Open access Sep 2026

The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings Revisited: Large Language Models Display Syntactic Bootstrapping

Syntactic bootstrapping (Gleitman, 1990) is the hypothesis that children use the syntactic environments in which a verb occurs to learn its meaning. Existing evidence for this hypothesis generally involves controlled experimental settings (e.g., Jin & Fisher, 2014; Naigles, 1990; Yuan et al., 2012). In this paper, we...

Xiao-Meng Zhu, R. Thomas McCoy, Robert Frank · Open Mind · 0 citations