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Causal Interventions Reveal Typologically Organized Syntactic Mechanisms in Multilingual Language Models

arXiv cs.CL · 4d ago Cached

This paper uses causal interventions to investigate syntactic mechanisms in multilingual language models, revealing cross-lingual transfer that is graded based on typological similarity.

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Language Has Two Parameters: Narrative-Induced Semantic Plasticity and Phase-Sensitive Interpretation

arXiv cs.CL · 2026-08-19 Cached

This paper proposes a second parameter, phase, in language interpretation, arguing that current transformer models lack explicit representation for phase, which is crucial for phenomena like allusion and irony, and suggests new architectures with agent-indexed semantic states.

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