SPOTLIGHT - TODAY
6 July, 11:00-13:00
Sala del Camino (aula magna), Broletto, P.zza Vittoria, 15, Pavia
Prof. Roni Katzir
(University of Tel Aviv)
GAPS, RATIONAL LEARNING, AND A KNOWLEDGE NORM ON FORMS - Linguistics at IUSS Seminar Serie
7 July, 10:00-12:00
On-line meeting
Reading Group NeTS
(IUSS Pavia)
Last updates on BabyBabelLM
13 July, 11:00-13:00
Sala del Camino (aula magna), Broletto, P.zza Vittoria, 15, Pavia
Professor Richard Breheny
(University College London, Linguistics)
A question of form - Linguistics at IUSS Seminar Series
Four things we have done in the past few years:
1

Language Acquisition in Babies and Machines

In 2026, NeTS organized a series of seminars to bridge the gap between language acquisition in linguistic theory and machine learning, with Roni Katzir and Charles Yang, among others.

2

BabyLMs

The NeTS team has participated in the BabyLM Challenge competitions since 2024. The objective was to train small language models (BabyLMs) under a limited word budget, using specific architectures and morphologically driven tokenization strategies. Some results: Chesi et al. (2024) Different Ways to Forget - Fusco et al. (2025) Linguistic Units as Tokens.

3

GRAdedness and GRAmmaticality in Linguistics (T-GRA2L)

In 2024, the NeTS team began investigating the complex relationship between categorical (grammaticality) judgments and gradient (acceptability) judgments. Check some of the findings from the T-GRA2L project.

4

Can there be a Hilbert List of Syntax (yet)?

In 2013, a group of prominent generative linguists (R. Kayne, R. Frank, G. Longobardi, P. Svenonius, I. Roberts, A. Belletti, G. Cinque, A. M. Di Sciullo, D. Sportiche, L. Rizzi, M. Den Dikken, R. Manzini, N. Richards, D. Delfitto, H. van Riemsdijk, H. Haider) discussed @ NeTS core problems in linguistic theorizing.