AI RESEARCH
Child-directed speech facilitates production, not comprehension, in BabyLMs
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2606.01045v1 Announce Type: new Recent studies suggest that child-directed speech is not conducive to language learning in BabyLMs. However, current evaluations focus predominantly on comprehension and not production, which is central to usage-based theories of language acquisition which argue how CDS facilitates early language use through constructional ''frames'' (frequent lexical patterns with open slots). We