Manipulating language models’ training data to study syntactic constraint learning: The case of English passivization
Open Access
- 17 March 2026
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Memory and Language
- Vol. 149
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Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (BCS-2114505)
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