SPOTLIGHT - Next talks
9 June, 9:00-11:00
Aula 1-15, Broletto, P.zza Vittoria, 15, Pavia
Reading Group NeTS
(IUSS Pavia)
Reading group
Four things we did 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 R. Katzir and C. Yang, i.a.

2

BabyLMs

NeTS team participated in BabyLM Challenge competitions since 2024. The goal was to train small language models (BabyLMs) using a limited word-budget, 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 at NeTS we started working on the complicated relationship between categorical (grammatical) and gradual (acceptability) judgments. Some results of 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.