“‘Language’ Tag”,2018-01-21 (LM tokenization, compression, epistemology, logic, mind, neuroscience, writing psychology)⁠:

Bibliography for tag psychology/linguistics, most recent first: 5 related tags, 108 annotations, & 39 links (parent).

• See Also
• Gwern
  • “Subscripts For Citations”, Gwern2020
  • “Abs-E (or, Speak Only in the Positive) § text2epositive.py Experiment”, Gwern2024
  • “text2epositive.py”, Gwern2024
  • “On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages”, Gwern2016
• Links
  • “ABBYY’s Bitter Lesson: How Linguists Lost the Last Battle for NLP”, Skorinkin2024
  • “Rapid Formation of Picture-Word Association in Cats”, Takagi et al 2024
  • “Why Concepts Are (probably) Vectors”, Piantadosi et al 2024
  • “Language Is Primarily a Tool for Communication rather than Thought”, Fedorenko et al 2024
  • “African Elephants Address One Another With Individually Specific Name-Like Calls”, Pardo et al 2024
  • “The Language Network As a Natural Kind within the Broader Landscape of the Human Brain”, Fedorenko et al 2024b
  • “An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming”, Blumer et al 2024
  • “Language Models Learn Rare Phenomena from Less Rare Phenomena: The Case of the Missing AANNs”, Misra & Mahowald2024
  • “The ‘After You’ Gesture in a Bird”, Suzuki & Sugita2024
  • “Teaching Large Language Models an Unseen Language on the Fly”, Zhang et al 2024
  • “[On Gricean Maxims]”, Munroe2024
  • “Grounded Language Acquisition through the Eyes and Ears of a Single Child”, Vong et al 2024
  • “Mission: Impossible Language Models”, Kallini et al 2024
  • “A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models—Part I: Continuity With Classic Debates”, Millière & Buckner2024
  • “Large Language Models Are Able to Downplay Their Cognitive Abilities to Fit the Persona They Simulate”, Milička et al 2024
  • “Generalization in Sensorimotor Networks Configured With Natural Language Instructions”, Riveland & Pouget2023
  • “MTOB: A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book”, Tanzer et al 2023
  • “Testing My Speech Jammer In Public”, Jordan2023
  • “Testing My Speech Jammer In Public § Speech Jammer Immunity”, Jordan2023
  • “The Architecture of a Biologically Plausible Language Organ”, Mitropolsky & Papadimitriou2023
  • “TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?”, Eldan & Li2023
  • “Approaching an Unknown Communication System by Latent Space Exploration and Causal Inference”, Beguš et al 2023
  • “When Watching TV Shows or Movies in Your Native Language, Do You Generally Prefer to Have the Subtitles on or Off? § By Age”, YouGov2023
  • “Human-Like Systematic Generalization through a Meta-Learning Neural Network”, Lake & Baroni2023
  • “Can Language Models Handle Recursively Nested Grammatical Structures? A Case Study on Comparing Models and Humans”, Lampinen2022
  • “Semantic Projection Recovers Rich Human Knowledge of Multiple Object Features from Word Embeddings”, Grand et al 2022
  • “Machine Learning Reveals Cryptic Dialects That Explain Mate Choice in a Songbird”, Wang et al 2022
  • “Exact Number Concepts Are Limited to the Verbal Count Range”, Pitt et al 2022
  • “Maternal Judgments of Child Numeracy and Reading Ability Predict Gains in Academic Achievement and Interest”, Parker et al 2021
  • “The Impact of Bilingualism on Executive Functions in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review Based on the PRISMA Method”, Giovannoli et al 2020
  • “Cultural Influences on Word Meanings Revealed through Large-Scale Semantic Alignment”, Thompson et al 2020
  • “Can Neural Networks Acquire a Structural Bias from Raw Linguistic Data?”, Warstadt & Bowman2020
  • “Generative Adversarial Phonology: Modeling Unsupervised Phonetic and Phonological Learning With Neural Networks”, Beguš2020
  • “CiwGAN and FiwGAN: Encoding Information in Acoustic Data to Model Lexical Learning With Generative Adversarial Networks”, Beguš2020
  • “The the the the Induction of Jamais Vu in the Laboratory: Word Alienation and Semantic Satiation”, Moulin et al 2020
  • “Building the Perfect Curse Word: A Psycholinguistic Investigation of the Form and Meaning of Taboo Words”, Reilly et al 2020
  • “How Many Words Do We Read per Minute? A Review and Meta-Analysis of Reading Rate”, Brysbaert2019
  • “Different Languages, Similar Encoding Efficiency: Comparable Information Rates across the Human Communicative Niche”, Coupé et al 2019
  • “What BERT Is Not: Lessons from a New Suite of Psycholinguistic Diagnostics for Language Models”, Ettinger2019
  • “Human Few-Shot Learning of Compositional Instructions”, Lake et al 2019
  • “Humans Store about 1.5 Megabytes of Information during Language Acquisition”, Mollica & Piantadosi2019
  • “Loyal to the Group of 17’s Story—The Just Man”, Wolfe2018
  • “Alarm Calls Evoke a Visual Search Image of a Predator in Birds”, Suzuki2018
  • “Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpora Only”, Lample et al 2017
  • “Word Translation Without Parallel Data”, Conneau et al 2017
  • “Linguistically Deprived Children: Meta-Analysis of Published Research Underlines the Importance of Early Syntactic Language Use for Normal Brain Development”, Vyshedskiy et al 2017
  • “Language and Thought Are Not the Same Thing: Evidence from Neuroimaging and Neurological Patients”, Fedorenko & Varley2016
  • “The Failure of Analysis and the Nature of Concepts”, Huemer2015
  • “The Idiom Principle Revisited”, Siyanova-Chanturia & Martinez2014
  • “A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Economist Coauthors”, Goodman et al 2014
  • “Grounding the Ungrounded: Estimating Locations of Unknown Place Names from Linguistic Associations and Grounded Representations”, Recchia & Louwerse2014
  • “Lu Chi’s The Art of Writing”
  • “Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Language”, Yang2013
  • “International Art English”, Rule & Levine2012
  • “SpeechJammer”, Kurihara & Tsukada2012
  • “SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance With Delayed Auditory Feedback”, Kurihara & Tsukada2012
  • “A Cross-Language Perspective On Speech Information Rate”, Pellegrino et al 2011
  • “Abraham Lincoln and the First-Person Plural: A Study in Language and Leadership”, Field2011
  • “Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families”, Montemurro & Zanette2011
  • “Précis of How Children Learn the Meanings of Words”, Bloom2010
  • “Language Evolution in the Laboratory”, Scott-Phillips & Kirby2010
  • “Where Do Personal Pronouns Come From?”, Bancel & L’etang2010
  • “Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the ‘Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax’”, Krupnik & Müller-Wille2010
  • “The Structure of Individual Differences in the Cognitive Abilities of Children and Chimpanzees § Table 1. Primate Cognition Test Battery: Description of Tasks and Mean Proportion (With Standard Deviation) of Correct Responses by Chimpanzees and Human Children”, Herrmann et al 2010 (page 4)
  • “Language Encodes Geographical Information”, Louwerse & Zwaan2009
  • “Diversity in Saami Terminology for Reindeer, Snow, and Ice”, Magga2006
  • “Least Effort and the Origins of Scaling in Human Language”, Cancho & Sole2003
  • “Data Compression and Entropy Estimates by Non-Sequential Recursive Pair Substitution”, Grassberger2002
  • “Estimating and Comparing Entropy across Written Natural Languages Using PPM Compression”, Behr et al 2002
  • “What Do You Care What Other People Think § It’s As Simple As One, Two, Three”, Feynman2001
  • “The Distribution of N-Grams”, Egghe2000
  • “Text Compression As a Test for Artificial Intelligence”, Mahoney1999
  • “THE ENTROPY OF ENGLISH USING PPM-BASED MODELS—Data Compression Conference, 1996. DCC ’96. Proceedings”
  • “Processing Linguistic Probabilities: General Principles and Empirical Evidence”, Budescu & Wallsten1995
  • “Entropy of Natural Languages: Theory and Experiment”, Levitin & Reingold1994
  • “The Perception of Rhythm in Language”, Cutler1994
  • “When It Is Better to Receive Than to Give: Syntactic and Conceptual Constraints on Vocabulary Growth”, Fisher et al 1994
  • “How Could a Child Use Verb Syntax to Learn Verb Semantics?”, Pinker1994
  • “Building a Large Annotated Corpus of English: The Penn Treebank”, Marcus et al 1993
  • “A Silent Childhood”, Rymer1992
  • “Writing Is a Technology That Restructures Thought”, Ong1992
  • Epistemology and Cognition, Fetzer1991
  • “A Dynamic Systems Model of Cognitive and Language Growth”, Geert1991
  • “An Extended Family With a Dominantly Inherited Speech Disorder”, Hurst et al 1990
  • Literacy Theory and Research: Analyses from Multiple Paradigms. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (39^th, Austin, Texas, November 28–December 2, 1989_35ya), Zutell & McCormick1990
  • “Etymology of the Computer Bug: History and Folklore”, Shapiro1987
  • “How Much Do People Remember? Some Estimates of the Quantity of Learned Information in Long-Term Memory”, Landauer1986
  • “Comparative Patterns of Reading Eye Movement in Chinese and English”
  • “A Convergent Gambling Estimate Of The Entropy Of English”, Cover & King1978
  • Interstellar Communication: Scientific Perspectives, Ponnamperuma & Cameron1974
  • “Distributional Structure”, Harris1954
  • “Prediction and Entropy of Printed English”, Shannon1951
  • “Chance Remarks”, Pierce1949
  • “Chance Remarks § Shannon’s n-Gram Generations”, Pierce1949 (page 4)
  • “John Wilkins’s Analytical Language”, Borges1942
  • “The World I Live In § XI. Before The Soul Dawn”, Keller1904
  • “An Estimate of an Upper Bound for the Entropy of English”
  • “Heavenlore”
  • “What Is Anglish?”
  • “List of Pangrams”
  • “This Word Does Not Exist [Github]”
  • “SpeechJammer Homepage”, Kurihara & Tsukada2024
  • “A Linguist on Arrival’s Alien Language”
  • “I Was a Teacher for 17 Years, but I Couldn’t Read or Write”
  • “A Language of Beautiful Impurity”
  • “Functional Specificity for High-Level Linguistic Processing in the Human Brain”
  • “Seraphim: An Angelic Conlang for Agma Schwa’s Cursed Conlang Contest”
  • “‘Mother’”
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