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formal versus functional linguistic competence: a standalone construct

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Natural language processing

the distinction between knowing a language's rules and patterns and using language to reason and act in the world, applied to judge language models.

In natural language processing, formal versus functional linguistic competence refers to the distinction between knowing a language's rules and patterns and using language to reason and act in the world, applied to judge language models. This meaning comes from Mahowald (2024) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.[1]

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  1. Mahowald, K., Ivanova, A. A., Blank, I. A., Kanwisher, N., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Fedorenko, E. (2024). Dissociating language and thought in large language models. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(6), 517-540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.01.011

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