"the neural toolkit provides a system one can probe and perturb in order to generate theories and test them counterfactually. These all seem to us like desirable features of good linguistic explanations."
Check it out and see if you find our analysis explanatorily satisfying!
Kyle Mahowald
"She'll go to France or Spain or Germany or France" sounds redundant—unless licensed with context like "She will go to an art program in France or Spain or a math program in Germany or France"
In new work w/ @qyao.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social: an LM-based 'Neural Semantics' account
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