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  1. Does AI-Generated Scientific Text Follow Human Argumentation Patterns? A CARS-Based Comparison of Research Article Introductions

    Oct 1, 2026Abdelrahman Sadallah, Narjes Sheikh Asadi, Lonneke van der PlasHuman-Written TextRhetoric

    Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

  2. Machine Translation for Sign Languages

    Oct 1, 2026Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Anton Pelykh, Edward Fish +7Gloss-Free Sign Language TranslationSign Language Translation

    Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, GU2 7XH.

  3. Rules Amortize, Pairings Don't: Linguistic Structure Determines What Latent Task Representations Can Replace In-Context Learning

    Sep 30, 2026Gunmay JhingranIn-Context LearningLinguistics

    Delhi Technological University

  4. Linguistic Loopholes in LLM Unlearning: From a 174-Language Benchmark to Coverage-Aware Unlearning

    Sep 30, 2026Tyler Skow, Shravan Chaudhari, Rama Chellappa +1Large Language Model UnlearningMultilingual Benchmark

    Johns Hopkins University

  5. PassGPT+: Leveraging Linguistic Priors for Password Modeling

    Sep 30, 2026Rajneesh Anand, Neeraj Lakshmanan, Masoud YariGenerative ModelsLinguistics

    Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA · Department of Computer Science & Design, Singapore University of Technology & Design, Singapore · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA

  6. When Order Matters: First-Speaker Bias and Mitigation through Personality in Sequential Multi-Agent Debate

    Sep 30, 2026Duofeng Xu, Bryan Hooi, Dandan QiaoMulti-Agent DebatePersonality

    School of Computing National University of Singapore Singapore

  7. Role-guided Speaker Deletion Verification in Clinical Psychiatry Speech Recordings with Audio Language Models

    Sep 29, 2026Joseph T Colonel, Daniel Katzman, Kelsey Kirker +6SpeakerClinician Trust

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, USA

  8. Reader Proficiency Shapes Layer-wise Surprisal Profiles

    Sep 29, 2026Akio Hayakawa, Horacio SaggionReadabilityProficiency

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain

  9. Co-Linguistics: AI-augmented Theory Construction in Linguistics

    Sep 29, 2026Emmanuel Chemla, Benjamin Spector, Alexandros Kalomoiros +1LinguisticsArtificial Intelligence Scientists

  10. Seeing Is Not Addressing: Auditing Linguistic Access to Frozen Visual Geometry

    Sep 29, 2026Woosang Jeon, Jiwon Yang, Soo Chung +1LinguisticsFrozen

    Seoul National University

  11. Louder, Longer, Livelier: Acoustic Shortcuts and Underspecified Rationales in Speech LLM Judges

    Sep 29, 2026Mingyue Huo, Shivam Mehta, Bhavin Jawade +2Large Language Model JudgesLlm-As-A-Judge

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Netflix

  12. Multilinguality in Hybrid Attention LLMs

    Sep 28, 2026Lucas Bandarkar, Junlin Hu, Chenyuan Yang +2Multilingual Language ModelsMultilingual

    University of California, Los Angeles · Fudan University

  13. When Words Speak Louder than Images: Towards Understanding Language Bias in Vision-Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026Yizhou Fang, Siyue Chen, Zimo Qi +3LinguisticsVisual Evidence

    University of Waterloo · Independent Researcher · Johns Hopkins University +3

  14. Papers Without Code: Availability of GitHub Repositories Linked in *CL Publications

    Sep 28, 2026Selina Meyer, Michael RothNatural Language ProcessingLinguistics

    University of Technology Nuremberg

  15. E-CONAN (Entailment, CONtradition And Neutral) Diagnostics Dataset Investigating Linguistic Phenomena in Arabic Natural Language Understanding

    Sep 27, 2026Khloud AL Jallad, Nada Ghneim, Ghaida RebdawiArabic Natural Language ProcessingNatural Language Processing

    Informatics Department, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Damascus, Syria. · Faculty of Informatics and Communication, Arab International University, Daraa, Syria.

  16. Language Discrimination Improves Linguistic Learning in Multilingual Speech Models

    Sep 27, 2026Maureen de Seyssel, Jie Chi, Zakaria AldenehMultilingual Automatic Speech RecognitionCross-Lingual Consistency

    Apple

  17. Grammatical "grandmother neurons" are rare in LLMs

    Sep 24, 2026Linyang He, Nima MesgaraniLinguisticsNeurons

    Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University

  18. Semantic Abstraction for Natural Language Inference: a Methodological Framework for Discovering and Compensating Semantic Knowledge and Reasoning Gaps in Large Language Models

    Sep 22, 2026David Torres-Moreno, Jorge Hermosillo-ValadezNatural Language InferenceLLM Reasoning Strategies

  19. Linguistic Features for Interpretable Textual Entailment

    Sep 21, 2026David Torres-Moreno, Jorge Hermosillo-Valadez, Asela Reig-AlamilloEntailmentNatural Language Processing

    Centro de Investigación en Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos · Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación en Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos

  20. 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

  21. Pay More Attention To Text In High-Resolution MLLMs

    Sep 20, 2026Zhongkuan Mao, Wenzhuo Zhao, Xianjie Liu +7Multimodal Large Language ModelsCitation Hallucination Detection

    National Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science on Synthetic Vision, Sichuan University · College of Computer Science, Sichuan University · Peking University +2

  22. Improving Cross-Lingual Transfer for Sequential Sentence Classification in Research Papers via Structural Similarity

    Sep 17, 2026Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Marie KatsuraiCross-Lingual TransferLinguistics

    Doshisha University Kyotanabe, Japan

  23. BurnRiSc: Toward Non-Invasive Burnout Screening in Open Source from Public Repository Signals

    Sep 16, 2026Timofey Sanko, Yuan Tian, Mariam GuizaniOpen-SourceDistress

    Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada

  24. Cultural Competence in Context: A Large Language Model Passes the Turing Test in Finland

    Sep 16, 2026Otto Segersven, Pentti HenttonenLinguisticsCounter Turing Test

    Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki · Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere

  25. Linguistic Triggers of Gender and Racial Bias in Open-Weight LLMs Applied to Recruitment

    Sep 16, 2026Kosuke Kitahara, Nobuhiro YamaguchiLarge Language Model BiasGender

    Recruit Co., Ltd. 1-9-2 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6640 Japan

  26. From a River in Gilead to the Inference Distributions of Large Language Models: Covert Dialect Bias and Linguistic Profiling at Scale

    Sep 16, 2026Chowdhury Mohammad Abdullah, Rita OrjiLarge Language Model BiasDialects

    Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada

  27. Target-Language Generation in Multilingual Models: Activation Steering and Optimal Control

    Sep 15, 2026James A. Michaelov, Carmen Amo Alonso, Tyler A. Chang +1Multilingual Language ModelsMotion-Language Alignment

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Stanford University · University of California San Diego

  28. OPD-Aha: From Linguistic Momentum to Visual Reflection in Multimodal On-Policy Distillation

    Sep 15, 2026Chenhao Qiu, Dawei Li, Yechao Zhang +2Multimodal ReasoningTeacher

    Arizona State University · University of Virginia · Stevens Institute of Technology

  29. 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

  30. Multilingual in Name Only? Cultural and Linguistic Weaknesses of LLMs in Urdu

    Sep 12, 2026Farah Adeeba, Abdul Rafae Khan, Rajesh Bhatt +1UrduLow-Resource Languages

    University of Konstanz, Germany · University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA · Malaysia School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia +1

  31. Does Linguistic Structure Enrichment Enhance Coherence Assessment? Not With Current Architectures

    Sep 12, 2026Victor Mazzotti, Luiz Pereira, Marina Bitencourt dos Santos +4Discourse CoherenceLinguistics

    Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC) · Instituto de Computação (IC) · Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL) +1

  32. Negative Self-Distillation: Learning to Reason by Avoiding Flaws

    Sep 10, 2026Rongcan Pei, Zhepei Wei, Shuyao Xu +3Unsupervised On-Policy Self-DistillationSelf-Distillation Framework

    Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia · Stanford University

  33. FreqBLiMP: Frequency-Controlled Minimal Pairs Reveal Robustness and Fragility of LLMs Under Lexical Rarity

    Sep 7, 2026Tyrone White, Yuki AraseImplicit Association TestLinguistics

    School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo Tokyo, Japan

  34. Typological Feature Prediction with Large Language Models: An In-Context Learning Approach

    Sep 3, 2026Qianwen Wang, York Hay Ng, Aditya Khan +1TypologyLinguistics

    University of Toronto, Canada · Columbia · Ontario Tech University, Canada

  35. Language, Language Models, and What We're Talking About

    Sep 3, 2026Malvina NissimLanguage PairsLanguage Modeling

    CLCG, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

  36. No country for old linguists: LLM-brain alignment underdetermines neural computation

    Sep 2, 2026Elliot MurphyLarge Language Model AlignmentArtificial Intelligence Alignment

    Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

  37. Investigating Linear Probe Robustness to Linguistic Register, Medical Specialty, and Corpus Shifts in Medical QA

    Sep 1, 2026Nishant Mishra, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Iacer CalixtoMultilingual Healthcare Q&AText Corpora

    Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam · Amsterdam Public Health, Methodology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  38. Staged Linguistic Seeding: Grounded Query Expansion for Verified-Unit QA in AI Contact Centers

    Sep 1, 2026Hyeonseop Yoon, Jeong-Eun ParkQuestion-Answer PairsQuestion-Answering Benchmarks

    Independent Researcher Seoul, South Korea

  39. Detecting AI Impostors: How Do Middle Schoolers Identify LLM Agents in a Live Collaborative Setting?

    Aug 31, 2026Dan Schumacher, Pragathi Durga Rajarajan, Haven Kotara +6Artificial Intelligence DetectionDeception

    University of Texas at San Antonio

  40. Detecting Hidden Chain-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Linguistic, Behavioral, and Mechanistic Indicators

    Aug 30, 2026Armaan Singh, Ryan Trinh Le, Jasmine Kaur +5LLM Reasoning StrategiesReasoning Traces

    1Stanford University · 2York University · 3Facebook

  41. A Formal Limitation on Learning Human Language From Textual Corpora

    Aug 28, 2026Emily Cheng, Ryan CotterellLinguisticsNatural Language Processing

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra · ETH Zürich

  42. A Survey on Rubric-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Language Models

    Aug 27, 2026Zifei Shan, Fangning ShaoReinforcement Learning From Human FeedbackLarge Language Model Alignment

    WeChat, Tencent · Independent Researcher

  43. It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs

    Aug 13, 2026Katherine Van Koevering, Anjalie FieldLinguisticsCollective Behaviors

    Data Science and AI Institute Johns Hopkins University · Computer Science Department Johns Hopkins University

  44. Perturbation-based Regional Interpretability through Subtraction Mapping (PRISM): naming-error dissociations in language models and post-stroke aphasia

    Aug 13, 2026Xiang Guan, Roger D. Newman-Norlund, Yong Yang +8DissociationLinguistics

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina · Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina · ALLT.AI, LLC, Columbia, SC +3

  45. Beyond Naturalness: Probing Automated Text-To-Speech Evaluators on Linguistically Grounded Dimensions

    Aug 10, 2026Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Simon Rosen, Jash Shah +6Seed-Tts-Eval BenchmarkText-To-Speech Synthesis

    ServiceNow

  46. When Confidence Fails: Overconfidence in LLMs under Uncertainty and Missing Clinical Information

    Aug 10, 2026Maryam Tahermazandarani, Adnan Mahmood, Fahmida Islam +1OverconfidenceUncertainty

    School of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

  47. Gaze Behavior in Visual World Experiments Can be Modeled With Off-the-shelf Language-Vision Encoders

    Aug 7, 2026Rahul Murali Shankar, Titus von der Malsburg, Sebastian PadóGaze BehaviorVision Encoders

    Computational Linguistics · University of Stuttgart, Germany · Linguistics

  48. Beyond "AI Language": The case for the idiolectal nature of LLM output

    Aug 6, 2026Karolina Rudnicka, Thomas Stephan JuzekLinguisticsStylometric

    Faculty of Languages, University of Gdańsk, Poland · Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, United States

  49. Bias Analysis of L2 Speaking Assessment Systems Using Concept Activation Vectors

    Aug 6, 2026Arya Labroo, Mengjie Qian, Kate KnillSpeakerLarge Language Model Bias

    University of Cambridge

  50. Decolonizing Linguistic Policies in Automated Speech Recognition: A Framework for Cross-Culturally Competent Speech AI

    Aug 6, 2026Jay L. Cunningham, Mark Atta Mensah, Richard Martinez +2Automatic Speech RecognitionLinguistics

    DePaul University, School of Computing, RAISE Lab, USA · York University, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Canada · Independent Researcher, USA

  51. Language Models Generalize to Human-like Word Order Preferences

    Aug 5, 2026Amanda Popadich, Shane Steinert-ThrelkeldLanguage ModelingLarge Language Model Bias

    Department of Linguistics, University of Washington

  52. Do Language Models Know Their Slang? Queer Slang Understanding in User-Generated Content

    Aug 5, 2026Arianna Denitto, Beatrice SavoldiLinguisticsGender

    University of Torino, Department of Humanities, Via S. Ottavio 20, 10124 Torino, Italy · Fondazione Bruno Kessler, MT Unit, Via Sommarive 18, 38123, Povo (TN), Italy

  53. Pun Intended: Multi-Agent Translation of Wordplay with Contrastive Learning and Phonetic-Semantic Embeddings

    Aug 5, 2026Russell Taylor, Benjamin Herbert, Michael SanaLinguisticsGrapheme-To-Phoneme

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

  54. ChronoLens: Measuring Language Change Across Time, Languages, and Linguistic Levels

    Aug 4, 2026Gagan Bhatia, Julian Schlenker, Simone Paolo Ponzetto +1LinguisticsCross-Lingual Consistency

    University of Technology Nuremberg · University of Mannheim

  55. Open-Linguistic Concept Unified Learning for Cross-Site Interpretable Dermatology Image Diagnosis

    Aug 4, 2026Chengyu Wu, Junpeng Tan, Wanxiang Luo +3Skin Lesion ClassificationMedical Vision-Language Models

    Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China · Westlake University Hangzhou, China · Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, China +1

  56. What Language Does and What the Evidence Supports: A Functional Role Taxonomy and Evidence Audit of Language Grounding in Embodied Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Yifan Guo, Chenghao Li, Zhu Wang +6Multilingual AgentsEmbodied

    Northwestern Polytechnical University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  57. Aligned in Form, Not in Meaning: The Comprehension - Containment Decoupling of LLM Safety in Low-Resource Bangla Derogatory Speech

    Aug 3, 2026Shadab Bin Habib, A K M Ferdous Reza Habib, Subarno Neel +1Large Language Model SafetyLarge Language Model Alignment

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  58. Disentangled Contrastive Learning for Zero-Shot Multilingual Dense Retrieval

    Aug 3, 2026Chao Huang, Yufeng Chen, Changhao Guan +3Multilingual Language ModelsMultimodal Retrieval

    Key Laboratory of Big Data & Artificial Intelligence in Transportation (Beijing Jiaotong University), Ministry of Education · School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University

  59. Rethinking and formalising the state across languages: a unified computational learning theory account

    Aug 1, 2026Mohamed El IdrissiStemmingLinguistics

    INALCO, France

  60. Generative AI and linguistic diversity in academic writing and publishing: Perspectives from World Englishes

    Jul 30, 2026Kingsley Ugwuanyi, Christian Mair, Sender Dovchin +3WritingArtificial Intelligence Literacy

    SOAS University of London, UK · University of Freiburg, Germany · Curtin University, Australia +3