{"ID":2829011,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13441","arxiv_id":"2512.13441","title":"Large language models are not about natural language","abstract":"Large Language Models are useless for linguistics, as they are probabilistic models that require a vast amount of data to analyse externalized strings of words. In contrast, human language is underpinned by a mind-internal computational system that recursively generates hierarchical thought structures. The language system grows with minimal external input and can readily distinguish between real language and impossible languages.","short_abstract":"Large Language Models are useless for linguistics, as they are probabilistic models that require a vast amount of data to analyse externalized strings of words. In contrast, human language is underpinned by a mind-internal computational system that recursively generates hierarchical thought structures. The language sys...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13441","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.13441v1","authors":"[\"Johan J. Bolhuis\",\"Andrea Moro\",\"Stephen Crain\",\"Sandiway Fong\"]","published":"2025-12-15T15:36:42Z","proceeding":"cs.CL","tasks":"[\"cs.CL\",\"q-bio.NC\"]","methods":"[\"Language Model\"]","has_code":false}