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LLMs quantify syncretism's effect on language agreement errors

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Researchers have investigated how morphological syncretism influences agreement attraction errors in verbs across different languages. Using large language models to measure processing proxies like surprisal and attention entropy, they found that syncretism amplifies these errors in languages such as English and German, but not in Turkish or Armenian. The study aims to provide a computational account for these cross-linguistic variations in grammatical agreement. AI

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LLMs quantify syncretism's effect on language agreement errors

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Eva Neu ·

    Quantifying the cross-linguistic effects of syncretism on agreement attraction

    Agreement attraction errors, in which a verb erroneously agrees with an intervening noun rather than its grammatical head, are amplified by morphological syncretism in some languages (English, German, Russian) but not others (Turkish, Armenian), a cross-linguistic pattern without…

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