TLexDR

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dependency grammar 1 language evolution 1 language structure 1 linguistics 1 psycholinguistics 1 syntax 1

Voices on large language models

Standout quotes from every episode that touches this concept.

"Naively I certainly thought that all humans would have words for exact counting, and the Piraha don’t."
"Languages tend to go that way, they call it harmonic."
"The further apart the pair of words are that you’re connecting, the harder it is to do the production."
"But I think that’s why these large language models are so successful, is because good at form and form isn’t that hard in some sense."
"The longer the dependency is, the stronger the activation in the language network."

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Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

▶ 2h 50m