A Unified Assessment of the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument for Neural Language Models

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arXiv:2602.09992v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Several recent contributions have evaluated the Poverty of the Stimulus Hypothesis (PoSH) using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The results suggest that ANN-based language models can acquire certain structure-dependent generalizations from limited input without structural inductive biases of the type traditionally hypothesized by linguists. However, existing studies have largely focused on individual phenomena and adopted different eva