Cory Shain
@coryshain.bsky.social
Language in minds, brains, and machines. Linguistics prof
@Stanford. He/him. https://climblab.org/
@Stanford. He/him. https://climblab.org/
Woohoo 🎉 congrats!
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Woohoo 🎉 congrats!
"Processing deep recursive structures in humans and LLMs" - @yuhanzhang.bsky.social + Advay Aravind (Sunday poster) 5/5
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"Processing deep recursive structures in humans and LLMs" - @yuhanzhang.bsky.social + Advay Aravind (Sunday poster) 5/5
"Repetition Increases Signal in Self-Paced Reading Experiments" - Erxiao Wang (Sunday talk) 4/5
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"Repetition Increases Signal in Self-Paced Reading Experiments" - Erxiao Wang (Sunday talk) 4/5
"Lesioned Language Models Reproduce Symptoms of Human Aphasias" - Nathan Roll + @kriesjill.bsky.social + @lauragwilliams.bsky.social (Sunday talk) 3/5
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"Lesioned Language Models Reproduce Symptoms of Human Aphasias" - Nathan Roll + @kriesjill.bsky.social + @lauragwilliams.bsky.social (Sunday talk) 3/5
"Graded strength of comparative illusions is explained by Bayesian inference" - @yuhanzhang.bsky.social + Erxiao Wang (Saturday talk) 2/5
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"Graded strength of comparative illusions is explained by Bayesian inference" - @yuhanzhang.bsky.social + Erxiao Wang (Saturday talk) 2/5
Reposted by Cory Shain
Finishing up with Senior Area Chair Highlights (1/9)
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Finishing up with Senior Area Chair Highlights (1/9)
Session 5: "BabyLM’s First Constructions." In a companion paper to the first one, we show that much of this constructional knowledge is even present in "babyLMs" with more developmentally plausible amounts of training: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02147. w/ @weissweiler.bsky.social
BabyLM's First Constructions: Causal probing provides a signal of learning
Construction grammar posits that language learners acquire constructions (form-meaning pairings) from the statistics of their environment. Recent work supports this hypothesis by showing sensitivity…
arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Session 5: "BabyLM’s First Constructions." In a companion paper to the first one, we show that much of this constructional knowledge is even present in "babyLMs" with more developmentally plausible amounts of training: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02147. w/ @weissweiler.bsky.social