The goat that the cat that the dog that the stick that the fire that the water that the ox that the butcher that the Angel of Death that the Holy One, Blessed be He smote killed slaughtered drank quenched burned beat bit ate was purchased by my father for two zuzim.

BabyLM is back for round two! This time we have: 1. Multimodal track 2. Bring your own data and 3. Paper track! See the CfP for all the juicy details!

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The Article+Adjective+Numeral+Noun (e.g., “a lovely five days”) construction is quite rare, and yet people and LMs know it’s grammatical. What is the key to learning such a rare construction?

Kyle Mahowald and I answer this question in the context of LMs in our new paper: