New study tests whether multilingual LLMs process cross-linguistic syntactic structures with shared mechanisms
EliasEskin · x · 2026-09-04
New work by Sasha Boguraev with Toshiki Nakai, Kyle Mahowald, and Julius Steuer: linguistic theory has long recognized cross-linguistic syntactic regularities, leading to claims that similar structures are processed by similar mechanisms. The authors test this hypothesis directly in modern multilingual LMs, with a thread elaborating the findings.
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