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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 3h ago6/10
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Measuring Form and Function in Language Models

Researchers introduce Contextual Alternative Choice (CAC), a new evaluation method that measures both syntactic and functional properties of language models using metrics derived from child language acquisition studies. While some large language models approach human-level performance on these benchmarks, none trained on comparable data volumes simultaneously meet both formal and functional standards that children achieve early in development.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Feb 273/107
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Quantity Convergence, Quality Divergence: Disentangling Fluency and Accuracy in L2 Mandarin Prosody

This linguistic research study analyzes how Vietnamese learners of Mandarin Chinese acquire prosodic patterns, finding that advanced learners achieve native-like quantity in speech boundaries but develop inverted structural mapping patterns. The study reveals a trade-off between maintaining fluent output and achieving accurate prosodic structure in second language acquisition.