The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings Revisited: Large Language Models Display Syntactic Bootstrapping
Syntactic bootstrapping (Gleitman, 1990) is the hypothesis that children use the syntactic environments in which a verb occurs to learn its meaning. Existing evidence for this hypothesis generally involves controlled experimental settings (e.g., Jin & Fisher, 2014; Naigles, 1990; Yuan et al., 2012). In this paper, we...