@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-succinctness,
    title = "Succinctness, Not Expressivity, Predicts Syntactic Competence",
    author = "Li, Shangao  and
      Wu, Jinghan  and
      Lu, Chang  and
      Zhao, Yizheng",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2637/",
    pages = "59940--59976",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}