What I Read: impossible languages

https://www.quantamagazine.org/can-ai-models-show-us-how-people-learn-impossible-languages-point-a-way-20250113/


Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.
Ben Brubaker
1/13/25 11:00 AM


“Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.”