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A retrospective analysis on the use of LLMs to study infant syntax learning

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 22, 2026 · UTC

Large language models (LLMs) have increasingly been used to investigate how children acquire syntax at an early stage of development. This is notably the central scientific goal of the BabyLM challenge, a community-wide effort to develop models that achieve human-level syntactic performance while being trained on developmentally realistic corpora. In this paper, we reflect on the use of LLMs in the study of infant syntax learning by providing an epistemological assessment of several studies from this research program. We discuss how datasets are built, which models are implemented, how they ar

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