@inproceedings{mccurdy-etal-2020-conditioning,
title = "Conditioning, but on Which Distribution? Grammatical Gender in {G}erman Plural Inflection",
author = "McCurdy, Kate and
Lopez, Adam and
Goldwater, Sharon",
editor = "Chersoni, Emmanuele and
Jacobs, Cassandra and
Oseki, Yohei and
Pr{\'e}vot, Laurent and
Santus, Enrico",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.cmcl-1.8",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.cmcl-1.8",
pages = "59--65",
abstract = "Grammatical gender is a consistent and informative cue to the plural class of German nouns. We find that neural encoder-decoder models learn to rely on this cue to predict plural class, but adult speakers are relatively insensitive to it. This suggests that the neural models are not an effective cognitive model of German plural formation.",
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%T Conditioning, but on Which Distribution? Grammatical Gender in German Plural Inflection
%A McCurdy, Kate
%A Lopez, Adam
%A Goldwater, Sharon
%Y Chersoni, Emmanuele
%Y Jacobs, Cassandra
%Y Oseki, Yohei
%Y Prévot, Laurent
%Y Santus, Enrico
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%D 2020
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F mccurdy-etal-2020-conditioning
%X Grammatical gender is a consistent and informative cue to the plural class of German nouns. We find that neural encoder-decoder models learn to rely on this cue to predict plural class, but adult speakers are relatively insensitive to it. This suggests that the neural models are not an effective cognitive model of German plural formation.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.cmcl-1.8
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.cmcl-1.8
%P 59-65
Markdown (Informal)
[Conditioning, but on Which Distribution? Grammatical Gender in German Plural Inflection](https://aclanthology.org/2020.cmcl-1.8) (McCurdy et al., CMCL 2020)
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