@inproceedings{hwang-2026-child, title = "Can Child Language Acquisition be Modeled by Linear Causal or Bidirectional Masked Models Trained on Child-Directed Input?: A Comparison of Baby Language Models and Children in Acquiring Wanna Contraction", author = "Hwang, Haerim", editor = "Choshen, Leshem and Cotterell, Ryan and Gul, Mustafa Omer and Jumelet, Jaap and Linzen, Tal and Mueller, Aaron and Salhan, Suchir and Shah, Raj Sanjay and Warstadt, Alex and Wilcox, Ethan Gotlieb", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second {B}aby{LM} Workshop", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.babylm-main.5/", pages = "50--64", ISBN = "979-8-89176-475-0" }