A much-debated question in linguistics is whether learning language requires a language-specific learning capacity or can arise from input alone. Neural language models (NLMs) can greatly influence this debate as they learn solely from input and their inductive biases, without built-in linguistic representations. Recent work has examined how NLM’s handle various grammatical phenomena, including syntactic…

** This talk is organized in collaboration with the Syntax Interface Lectures Utrecht (SIL) ** Grammatical aspect in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and English: Insights from experimental studies This talk addresses important theoretical issues concerning grammatical aspect in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and English. Three experimental studies on L1 and L2 processing of grammatical aspect are then presented. L1 processing of…