TL;DR
This paper shows that when agents share more context they produce less informative languages, and provides a proof of concept and enables the testing of further hypotheses of the impact of shared context on language structure.
Representations of translated sentences are similar in the inner layers of multilingual language models -- an observation connected to the platonic representation hypothesis, yet unexplained theoretically. We provide an explanation based on the assumption that data have a hidden hierarchical structure whose abstract le...
Large language models (LLMs) are commonly associated with the distributional hypothesis, according to which (1) semantic meaning is grounded in distributional patterns of linguistic context, and (2) knowledge of cross-linguistic distributional correspondences allows for successful translation. This paper rejects the fi...
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, its structure, functions, and use in human communication. Traditionally, linguistic research has examined different levels of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. However, understanding language requires more than analyzing its str...
In this paper, based on posthumanist theory and posthumanist linguistics, we discuss specific elaborations of the term interaction as found in linguistics and sociology, where interactivity, reciprocal awareness and agency are discussed as possible characteristics of human interaction. We problematise to what extent th...
Compositionality is the property of a representational system whereby complex meanings arise from the combination of simpler meaningful elements. Here we take a developmental perspective to understand the origins of compositional representational systems and their relation to language—an issue that bears on longstand...
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