ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Language is a vital aspect of human life. Whether it is processed predominantly by its structure (grammar) or statistics (word probabilities) is a contention long debated in Psychology and Linguistics, reignited by the rise of statistics-based models like ChatGPT. Crucially, the brain preserves linguistic structure (speech sounds, grammar, pragmatics) while adapting to the statistics of a changing environment (new words, slang, diverse accents). Unraveling our ability to encode both structure and statistics is key to neurocomputational theories of language. Contemporary neuroscientific models excel at harnessing statistical properties of text, but overlook both linguistic structure and…
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