language acquisition

BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data EACL 2026 CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child–Adult InTeractions CoNLL 2026 Child-directed speech facilitates production, not comprehension, in BabyLMs CoNLL 2026 Collocational bootstrapping: A hypothesis about the learning of subject-verb agreement in humans and neural networks CoNLL 2026 Delayed Wh-Question Development in Children with Hearing Loss: Evidence for Morphosyntactic Vulnerability from Corpus-Based NLP and LLM Analyses EACL 2026 Enhancing Linguistic Competence of Language Models through Pre-training with Language Learning Tasks ACL 2026 Exploring the Semantic Space of Second Language Learners EACL 2026 Function Words as Statistical Cues for Language Learning ACL 2026 What Exactly do Children Receive in Language Acquisition? A Case Study on CHILDES with Automated Detection of Filler-Gap Dependencies CoNLL 2026 A Bayesian account of pronoun and neopronoun acquisition NAACL 2025 A Computational Simulation of Language Production in First Language Acquisition EMNLP 2025 Aligning Sentence Simplification with ESL Learner’s Proficiency for Language Acquisition NAACL 2025 Anything Goes? A Crosslinguistic Study of (Im)possible Language Learning in LMs ACL 2025 BabyLM’s First Constructions: Causal interventions provide a signal of learning EMNLP 2025 Code-Switching Curriculum Learning for Multilingual Transfer in LLMs ACL 2025 Developmentally-plausible Working Memory Shapes a Critical Period for Language Acquisition ACL 2025 Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning In German BabyLMs? CoNLL 2025 Frequency matters: Modeling irregular morphological patterns in Spanish with Transformers ACL 2025 Large Language Models and Children Have Different Learning Trajectories in Determiner Acquisition EMNLP 2025 Learning Language through Grounding NAACL 2025 Modeling Language Learning in Corrective Feedback Interactions EMNLP 2025 Pretraining Language Models with LoRA and Artificial Languages EMNLP 2025 Sentence-Final Particles in Mandarin Child-Directed Speech: Frequency and Impact on Speech Rate Interspeech 2025 SingaKids: A Multilingual Multimodal Dialogic Tutor for Language Learning ACL 2025 Subword models struggle with word learning, but surprisal hides it ACL 2025