Manuscript Beyond Static and Linear: What Attention Constraints Best Fit Human Reading Times?
Lanni Bu, Xiulin Yang, Christian Clark, Alex Warstadt, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
arXiv Preprint, 2026

Manuscript A Unified Assessment of the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument for Neural Language Models
Xiulin Yang, Arianna Bisazza, Nathan Schneider, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
arXiv Preprint, 2026

Proceedings Article Using LMs to Model the Effects of Context and Coreference during Sentence Comprehension
Kohei Kajikawa*, Lin Ai*, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026

Proceedings Article Using Prosody to Predict Syntactic Structure
Junghyun Min, Alex Warstadt, Tamar I. Regev, Tiago Pimentel, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026

Proceedings Article Apples to Apples? Towards Comparable Crosslingual Language Model Evaluation
Xiulin Yang, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Catherine Arnett
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026

Proceedings Article Language Models Learn Constructional Semantics, Not To Mention Syntax: Investigating LM Understanding of PAIRED-FOCUS Constructions
Wesley Scivetti, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Nathan Schnieder, Kaniska Misra, Leonie Wiesswieler
Proceedings of Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2026

Proceedings Article Information-Theoretic Storage Cost in Sentence Comprehension
Kohei Kajikawa, Shinnosuke Isono, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Proceedings of Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2026

Proceedings Article Dual Alignment Between Language Model Layers and Human Sentence Processing
Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Alex Warstadt, Yohei Oseki, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

Proceedings Article From Linear Input to Hierarchical Structure: Function Words as Statistical Cues for Language Learning
Xiulin Yang, Heidi Getz, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

Proceedings Article What Do Prosody and Text Convey? Characterizing How Meaningful Information is Distributed Across Multiple Channels
Aditya Yadavalli, Tiago Pimentel, Tamar I. Regev, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Alex Warstadt
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

Proceedings Article Predicting the Emergence of Induction Heads in Language Model Pretraining
Tatsuya Aoyama, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Nathan Schneider
Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

Journal Article What Can String Probability Tell Us About Grammaticality?
Jennifer Hu, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Siyuan Song, Kyle Mahowald, Roger Levy
Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2026

Proceedings Article Findings of the Third BabyLM Challenge: Accelerating Language Modeling Research with Cognitively Plausible Data
Lucas Charpentier, Leshem Choshen, Ryan Cotterell, Mustafa Omer Gul, Michael Y. Hu, Jing Liu, Jaap Jumelet, Tal Linzen, Aaron Mueller, Candance Ross, Raj Sanjay Shah, Alex Warstadt, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Adina Williams
Proceedings of the First BabyLM Workshop, 2025

Proceedings Article Modeling Bottom-up Information Quality during Language Processing
Cui Ding, Yanning Yin, Lena A. Jäger, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025

Proceedings Article Unpacking Let Alone: Human-Scale Models Generalize to a Rare Construction in Form but not Meaning
Wesley Scivetti, Tatsuya Aoyama, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Nathan Schneider
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025

Journal Article Using MoTR to Probe Agreement Processing in Russian
Metehan Oğuz, Cui Ding, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Zuzanna Fuchs
OpenMind, 2025

Journal Article Elements of World Knowledge (EWOK): A cognition-inspired framework for evaluating basic world knowledge in language models
Anna A. Ivanova, Aalok Sathe, Benjamin Lipkin, Unnathi Kumar, Setayesh Radkani, Thomas H. Clark, Carina Kauf, Jennifer Hu, R. T. Pramod, Gabriel Grand, Vivian Paulun, Maria Ryskina, Ekin Akyürek, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Nafisa Rashid, Leshem Choshen, Roger Levy, Evelina Fedorenko, Joshua Tenenbaum, Jacob Andreas
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

Journal Article Bigger is not always better: The importance of human-scale language modeling for psycholinguistics
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Michael Y. Hu, Alex Warstadt, Aaron Mueller, Leshem Choshen, Chengxu Zhuang, Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Tal Linzen
Journal of Memory and Language, 2025

Proceedings Article The Harmonic Structure of Information Contours
Eleftheria Tsipidi, Samuel Kiegeland, Franz Nowak, Tianyang Xu, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Alex Warstadt, Ryan Cotterell, Mario Giulianelli
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

Proceedings Article The time scale of redundancy between prosody and linguistic context
Tamar I Regev, Chiebuka Ohams, Shaylee Xie, Lukas Wolf, Evelina Fedorenko, Alex Warstadt, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Tiago Pimentel
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

Proceedings Article Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Cui Ding, Giovanni Acampa, Tiago Pimentel, Alex Warstadt, Tamar Regev
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

Proceedings Article Language Models Grow Less Humanlike beyond Phase Transition
Tatsuya Aoyama, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

Proceedings Article Anything Goes? A Crosslinguistic Study of (Im)possible Language Learning in LMs
Xiulin Yang, Tatsuya Aoyama, Yuekun Yao, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

Journal Article Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don’t Take Their Word for It
Brandon Waldon, Nathan Schneider, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Amir Zeldes, Kevin Tobia
Georgetown Law Journal, 2025