2025
Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models
EMNLP 2025
Seminal work by Huebner et al. (2021) showed that language models (LMs) trained on English Child-Directed Language (CDL) can outperform LMs trained on an equal amount of adult-directed text like Wikipedia. However, it remains unclear whether these results generalize across languages, architectures,