Publications
Publications
Papers
Humans and transformer LMs: Abstraction drives language learning
Jasper Jian & Christopher D. Manning
(under review – preprint available)
The long and short of subject focus in Igbo
Jasper Jian
(under review – ask me for draft)
A'-movement restrictions in Igbo reanalyzed
Jasper Jian & Martina Martinović
Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 43 (to appear) [paper]
Mechanisms vs. Outcomes: Probing for Syntax Fails to Explain Performance on Targeted Syntactic Evaluations
Ananth Agarwal, Jasper Jian, Christopher D. Manning, Shikhar Murty
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2025) [paper]
Feature bundling in the left periphery of Igbo interrogatives
Jasper Jian
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (2024) [paper]
Syntactic Substitutability as Unsupervised Dependency Syntax
Jasper Jian & Siva Reddy
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2023) [paper]