Cross-Linguistic Effects in Bilingual Phoneme BabyLMs

arXiv:2609.37121 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/babylm-org/babylm-eval

Terminology

• Accuracy — 19× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Pragmatics — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• European Language Resources Association — 1× in this paper
• Low-Resource Languages — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Meta-learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• BabyHuBERT: Multilingual Self-Supervised Learning for Segmenting Speakers in Child-Centered Long-Form Recordings
• A Study of Crosslinguistic Influence in Language Models
• Bringing Up a Bilingual BabyLM: Investigating Multilingual Language Acquisition Using Small-Scale Models

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