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  1. Typological Alignment of Stack-Based Language Models on Mildly Context-Sensitive Artificial Languages

    Oct 1, 2026Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted BriscoeTypologySyntactic Structure

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Tohoku University

  2. Beyond Linear Concepts: Discovering and Aligning Non-Linear Concept Manifolds in Large Language Models

    Oct 1, 2026Tido Specht, Elias Benedict Krey, Nils Neukirch +1Large Language Model AlignmentMultimodal Large Language Models

    University of Groningen · Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

  3. Zero-shot Dependency Parsing with Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Bootstrapping

    Sep 29, 2026Lalita Lowphansirikul, Attapol Rutherford, Jian Gang Ngui +2Cross-Lingual TransferSyntactic Structure

    VISTEC, Thailand · Chulalongkorn University, Thailand · AI Singapore, Singapore

  4. Multi-Task Learning by using Contextualized Word Representations for Syntactic Parsing of a Morphologically Rich Language

    Sep 24, 2026Toqeer Ehsan, Miriam Butt, Sarmad Hussain +2UrduSyntactic Structure

    Reliable Intelligence Team, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., 02150 Espoo, Finland. · Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany. · Center for Language Engineering, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, 54890 Lahore, Pakistan. +2

  5. Encoded but Not Decoded: Layer-Localized Evidence for a Three-Level Gap in LLM Syntax

    Sep 24, 2026Zhenyan Lu, He Wang, Xiaohui HuangSyntactic StructureScale Gap

    College of International Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing, China

  6. Parts-of-Speech as Emergent Categories in SAE Latent Space

    Sep 24, 2026Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia Passaro, Serena Auriemma +1Semantic RepresentationsSyntactic Structure

    CoLingLab, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa · Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa

  7. ThaiTrees: Thai Syntactic Dependency Trees Across Domains

    Sep 23, 2026Attapol T. Rutherford, Papatchol ThientongSyntactic StructureText Corpora

    Department of Linguistics Chulalongkorn University

  8. A retrospective analysis on the use of LLMs to study infant syntax learning

    Sep 22, 2026Hélie Bazin, Anouk Barberousse, François YvonSyntactic StructureSyntax

    SCAI, SND, ISIR · Sorbonne Université, Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) · SND +3

  9. Some Dialects Are More Equal Than Others: Non-Prestigious Arabic Dialectal Bias in LLMs

    Sep 21, 2026Mai Mohamed Eida, Ryan Dolan, Paul de Nijs +1DialectsArabic

    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  10. Generalization through Lexical Abstraction in Transformer Models: The Case of Functional Words

    Sep 17, 2026Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase, Paola MerloSyntactic StructureTransformer Architectures

    Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland · University of Geneva, Swizerland

  11. A Data-free Universal Prior over Syntactic Structures

    Sep 15, 2026Fermín Moscoso del Prado MartínSyntactic StructureProbability

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  12. Psychosis involves a deficit of information compression in connected speech

    Sep 14, 2026Samuele Vallisa, Claudio Palominos, Rui He +6LinguisticsSurprisal

    Grammar and Cognition Lab, Department of Translation & Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain · Department of Neurosciences, Health Sciences Institute, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. · Department of Psychiatry, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. +4

  13. Grounded Evaluation and Repair for NL-to-PDDL Problem Generation

    Sep 9, 2026Joana Rosa, Pedro Santos, Valdemar Oliveira +3Large Language Model PlanningLarge Language Model Generation

    INESC INOV, Lisbon, Portugal · Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal · Motamineral Minerais Industriais S.A. +1

  14. Does Syntax Matter? A Graph-Augmented Variational Topic Model for Computational Social Sciences

    Sep 7, 2026Alessandro MeneghiniTopic ModelingSyntactic Structure

    University of Udine

  15. Syntactic Patterns and Stylistic Functions in Narrative Prose: A Rule-Based and Machine-Learning Approach

    Sep 7, 2026Stefana JanicijevicSyntactic StructureStylometric

  16. A Non-Formulable Theorem: A Fundamental Limit of Finite Syntactic Systems and Its Consequences for Security and AI

    Sep 3, 2026Fabio F. G. BuonoFormal VerificationSecurity

    Independent Researcher

  17. Relative Prime Factorization and Finite-State Presentations under Fixed Finite-Monoid Observation

    Sep 3, 2026Takayuki KuriyamaAutomataFinite Groups

    Independent Researcher, Tokyo, Japan

  18. Separating Syntax from Language: A Mechanistic Account of Translation in Multilingual LLMs

    Sep 1, 2026Mikhail Sonkin, Tanja Baeumel, Daniil Gurgurov +2Machine TranslationLanguage Modeling

    Saarland University · University of Göttingen · German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) +1

  19. Late Transformer Layers Recode Syntax Canonically: Evidence from Greek Scrambling and Cross-Layer Generalisation

    Aug 31, 2026Christos Nikolaos Zacharopoulos, Revekka Kyriakoglou, Chara Tsoukala +1Transformer ArchitecturesSyntactic Structure

    Independent Researcher · Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis Paris, France · Athena Research Center, Athens, Greece +1

  20. Using Prosody to Predict Syntactic Structure

    Aug 31, 2026Junghyun Min, Alex Warstadt, Tamar I. Regev +2ProsodySyntactic Structure

    Georgetown University · UC San Diego · MIT +1

  21. Does Episodic Memory Help Close the Lexical Frequency Gap in Sensitivity to Syntactic Contrasts? A Test Using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

    Aug 24, 2026Jing Liu, Najoung KimGrammaticalitySyntactic Structure

    CoML Team, LSCP ENS, Université PSL, EHESS, CNRS · Department of Linguistics Boston University

  22. Semantic Lenia: Emergence of Homeostatic Solitons within the Semantic Space of Large Language Models

    Aug 12, 2026Yoshihiko KayamaSyntactic StructureEmergence

    BAIKA Women’s University 2–19–5, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

  23. Reifying Research Logic: AI-Assisted Workflow Construction and Incremental Refinement for Quantitative Syntax

    Aug 11, 2026He Wang, Jingbo Chen, Yuqiao Lai +3Agentic Workflow DesignNatural Language

    College of International Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210000, China.

  24. Mood Matters: How Syntactic Sensitivity Undermines Safety Alignment

    Aug 5, 2026Alina Klerings, Jannik Brinkmann, Heiner Stuckenschmidt +1Safety AlignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

    University of Mannheim · Technical University Clausthal

  25. Probing Character-level Transformers for the Spanish L-shaped Morphome

    Aug 4, 2026Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang, Wiebke Petersen +1MorphologyTransformer Architectures

    Department of English Language and Linguistics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida · Institute of Linguistics and Information Science, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf +1

  26. Specification-Guided Synthesis of Deadlock-Free Communication Protocol Refinements with Large Language Models

    Jul 30, 2026Yang Li, Ping Hou, Nobuko YoshidaInvariant SynthesisProtocol

    University of Oxford Computer Science Oxford, United Kingdom

  27. Instruction-Tuned Models Locally Reuse Human Syntax More Than Humans Do

    Jul 28, 2026Zandi EberstadtInstruction-Tuned ModelsSyntactic Structure

    Department of Computer Science University of Oxford

  28. Benchmarking LLMs for Verilog Design Flows

    Jul 23, 2026Angshuman Chakravertty, Rahul Koshti, Buddhi Prakash Sharma +1High-Level SynthesisHierarchical Register Transfer Level Generation

    School of Technology Management and Engineering, NMIMS, Hyderabad, India · Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India · Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the Anuradha and Prashanth Palakurthi Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (APPCAIR), Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani), Pilani 333031, India

  29. Linear representations of grammaticality in neural language models

    Jul 16, 2026Jane Li, Najoung KimGrammaticalityLinguistics

    Department of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD · Department of Linguistics Boston University Boston, MA

  30. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Monoculture: AI Homogenizes Syntax, Not (Necessarily) Semantics

    Jul 12, 2026Gordon BurtchAi-Assisted Programming TasksSyntactic Structure

    Boston University

  31. On the feasibility of dependency parsing of non-human sequences without a gold standard. Is evaluation possible in other species?

    Jul 7, 2026Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Catherine Hobaiter, Thore Bergman +1Syntactic StructureSpecies

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Department of Computer Science · University of St Andrews, School of Psychology and Neuroscience · University of Michigan, Departments of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology +1

  32. What Do AI Agents Actually Change? An Empirical Taxonomy of Mutation Patterns in Performance-Improving Pull Requests

    Jul 6, 2026Illia Dovhoshliubnyi, Nima Soroush, Ashkan Sami +1Pull RequestsCoding Agents

    Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK · University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

  33. The Grammar Does the Work: Functional vs. Lexical Dependency Length Minimization Across Universal Dependencies

    Jul 2, 2026Kim GerdesSyntactic Structure

    LISN, Qatent, STL · Université Paris-Saclay, LISN (CNRS) Orsay, France

  34. Which Tokens Need Context? A Reference-Based Analysis of Translation Responsibility Using Fertility and Entropy

    Jun 28, 2026Ramakrishna Appicharla, Baban Gain, Santanu Pal +1Machine Translation QualityTranslation Quality

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India · 2Wipro AI Lab45, Bengaluru, India

  35. Can Machines Really See Objects in Images? A Study Based on Syntactic Distance and Visual Self-Referential Instances

    Jun 28, 2026Xingyu Peng, Junran Wu, Yue Hou +9Vision Foundation ModelsSelf-Referential Bias

    SKLCCSE, Beihang University · Xiaoyu Brain · Nanjing University +1

  36. Compositionality and the lexicon in evolutionary semantics

    Jun 25, 2026Fausto CarcassiCompositionalitySyntactic Structure

    Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  37. Syntactic Belief Update as the Driver of Garden Path Processing Difficulty

    Jun 25, 2026Alan Zhou, Miloš Stanojević, John T. HaleSurprisalSyntactic Structure

    Johns Hopkins University · University College London

  38. Weave of Formal Thought

    Jun 24, 2026Alexandre BouayadSyntaxSyntactic Structure

  39. L3Cube-MahaPOS: A Marathi Part-of-Speech Tagging Dataset and BERT Models

    Jun 23, 2026Hariom Ingle, Ronit Ghode, Ishwari Gondkar +2Natural Language DatasetsTagging

    Department of Information Technology, PICT, Pune, India · L3 Cube Labs, Pune, India · Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

  40. AfriSUD: A Dependency Treebank Collection for Evaluating Models on African Languages

    Jun 10, 2026Happy Buzaaba, Cheikh Mouhamadou Bamba Dione, David Ifeoluwa Adelani +15African LanguagesSyntactic Structure

    Princeton University · Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, Princeton University · Gaston Berger University +20

  41. Minimalist Genetic Programming

    Jun 8, 2026Leonardo TrujilloGenetic AlgorithmsLlm-Driven Code Synthesis

    Tecnol´ogico Nacional de M´exico/IT de Tijuana,Tijuana, BC, Me xico · LASIGE, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

  42. Frequency-based Constrained Sampling for Interval Patterns

    Jun 8, 2026Djawad Bekkoucha, Abdelkader Ouali, Bruno CrémilleuxData MiningAdaptive Sampling

    Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN), Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France · Université Caen Normandie, ENSICAEN, CNRS, Normandie Univ, GREYC UMR6072, F-14000 Caen, France

  43. Arabic Sentence Segmentation Across Genres and Punctuation Conditions

    Jun 6, 2026Mohammed Elkholy, Khalid N. Elmadani, Nizar Habash +1Document SegmentationArabic Natural Language Processing

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · New York University Abu Dhabi

  44. An ERP Study on Recursive Locative Processing in Mandarin-Speaking Children with Autism

    Jun 4, 2026Xiaoyi Wang, Chenxi Fu, Ziman Zhuang +1Autism Spectrum DisorderMandarin

    Soochow University

  45. A French Corpus Annotated for Multiword Expressions with Adverbial Function

    Jun 3, 2026Eric Laporte, Takuya Nakamura, Stavroula VoyatziText CorporaLuxembourgish

    Université Paris-Est · Institut Gaspard-Monge - LabInfo · 5, Boulevard Descartes, Champs-sur-Marne 77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2 (France)

  46. Rethinking the Idiomaticity Decomposability Hypothesis: Evidence from Distributional Learning

    Jun 2, 2026Maggie Mi, Golzar Atefi, Atsuki Yamaguchi +3IdiomSyntactic Structure

    University of Sheffield · Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT) · University of Exeter +1

  47. An Algebraic View of the Expressivity of Recurrent Language Models

    Jun 1, 2026Franz Nowak, Ryan Cotterell, Reda BoumasmoudRecurrent Neural NetworksAlgebraic Structures

    ETHZürich.

  48. Language Models Learn Constructional Semantics, Not To Mention Syntax: Investigating LM Understanding of Paired-Focus Constructions

    May 29, 2026Wesley Scivetti, Ethan Wilcox, Nathan Schneider +2Syntactic StructureConstruction

    Georgetown University · The University of Texas at Austin · Leipzig University & ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig

  49. Neuro-symbolic Syntactic Parsing: Shaping a Neural Network with the CYK Algorithm

    May 29, 2026Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Federico Ranaldi, Giorgio SattaNeuro-Symbolic FrameworkContext-Free Grammars

    Human-centric ART, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy · DEI, University of Padua, Italy

  50. When Discourse Pressures Conflict: Information Structure in Vision-Language Model Outputs

    May 27, 2026Marcell Fekete, Johannes Bjerva, Tamás KáldiDiscourseSyntactic Structure

    Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark · Department of Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary · ELTE Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Needs Education, Budapest, Hungary

  51. Better heads do not guarantee better binarized constituency parsing

    May 27, 2026Zeyao Qi, Yige Chen, Eitan Klinger +2Syntactic StructureDocument Segmentation

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong · The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada · Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

  52. Cultural Fidelity in English-to-Hindi Translation: A Preservation-Fluency Frontier for Gender Recoverability

    May 26, 2026Samyak Savi, Chavi Gupta, Shreyas Gantayet +2Translation QualityGender

    BITS Pilani

  53. Probing Minimalist Phase Structure in LLMs: What Universal Dependencies Cannot Represent

    May 26, 2026Yuanhao Chen, Peter ChinSyntactic Structure

    Dartmouth College

  54. GeoMathCode: Understanding Interleaved Math-Code Reasoning for Geometry Problem Solving

    May 25, 2026Yingji Zhang, Yong Dai, André FreitasVisual RepresentationsSyntactic Structure

    X-Humanoid, China · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK · Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland +1

  55. Word-Class and Construction-Like Structure Emerges in Neural Successor Representations Trained on Natural Language

    May 23, 2026Mathis Immertreu, Achim Schilling, Thomas Kinfe +1Syntactic StructureSemantic Representations

    Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Group, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. · Mannheim Center for Neuromodulation and Neuroprosthetics (MCNN), University Hospital Mannheim, University Heidelberg, Germany.

  56. Self-Training Doesn't Flatten Language -- It Restructures It: Surface Markers Amplify While Deep Syntax Dies

    May 20, 2026Ming LiuSyntactic StructureCircuit Depth

    Amazon

  57. Collocational bootstrapping: A hypothesis about the learning of subject-verb agreement in humans and neural networks

    May 19, 2026Claire Hobbs, R. Thomas McCoyLanguage AcquisitionSyntactic Structure

    Cognitive Science Program Yale University · Dept. of Linguistics & Wu Tsai Institute Yale University

  58. CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child-Adult InTeractions

    May 19, 2026Francesca Padovani, Xiulin Yang, Bastian Bunzeck +4Syntactic StructureLanguage Acquisition

    Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), University of Groningen · Georgetown University · Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Bielefeld University

  59. Readers make targeted regressions to plausible errors in reanalysis of "noisy-channel garden-path" sentences

    May 18, 2026Thomas Hikaru Clark, Roger Levy, Edward GibsonLinguisticsSyntactic Structure

    MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA, USA

  60. A semantic mutation metric for metamorphic relation adequacy in scientific computing programs

    May 17, 2026Meng Li, Xiaohua Yang, Jie Liu +1Quality-Driven Selective MutationStress Testing

    School of Computing, University of South China, Hengyang, China · Hunan Engineering Research Center of Software Evaluation and Testing for Intellectual Equipment, Hengyang, China · CNNC Key Laboratory on High Trusted Computing, Hengyang, China