Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026

Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA text conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 scil-2026-main https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.0/ Measuring Perceptions of Personhood with Semantic Proto-role Properties Elizabeth Spaulding Hoefer author James Martin author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 hoefer-martin-2026-measuring https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.1/ 2026-07 1 14 Small Neural Networks as Models of Cross-Linguistic Speech Perception Annika Shankwitz author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 shankwitz-2026-small https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.2/ 2026-07 15 24 A Family of Effective Methods for Decompiling Canonical Acceptors, Instantiated for Languages of Dot-Depth One and Tier-Based Extensions Dakotah Lambert author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 lambert-2026-family https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.3/ 2026-07 25 36 Examining the Limits of Word2Vec with Toki Pona Daniel Huang author Hongchen Wu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 huang-wu-2026-examining https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.4/ 2026-07 37 46 Learning Latent Representations with Progressive Hypothesis Space Expansion Jonathan Charles Paramore author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 paramore-2026-learning https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.5/ 2026-07 47 56 What Exactly do Children Receive in Language Acquisition? A Case Study on CHILDES with Automated Detection of Filler-Gap Dependencies Zhenghao Zhou author William Dai author Maya Viswanathan author Simon Charlow author R Thomas McCoy author Robert Frank author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 zhou-etal-2026-exactly-children https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.6/ 2026-07 57 58 Determinants of Hesitations and Repetitions in Hindi Spontaneous Speech Eashani Sharma author Ishita Arun author Samar Husain author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 sharma-etal-2026-determinants https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.7/ 2026-07 59 71 An LLM Investigation into Inherent and Structural Case Representation: a German Case Study Iona Carslaw author András Bárány author Itamar Kastner author Mark Steedman author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 carslaw-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.8/ 2026-07 72 89 A Logical Analysis of Autosegmental Approaches to Root-and-Pattern Morphology in Arabic Sarah Payne author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 payne-2026-logical https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.9/ 2026-07 90 99 Comonadic Morphophonology: A Compositional Framework for Context-Dependent Morphological Rules in Finnish Yongseok Jang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 jang-2026-comonadic https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.10/ 2026-07 100 112 The Development of Spectral and Temporal Encodings in Speech Sounds Frank Lihui Tan author Youngah Do author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 tan-do-2026-development https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.11/ 2026-07 113 126 The Spanish Learner and Heritage Speaker Dependency Treebank Valeria Pagliai author Sergio José Salazar Rodó author Emiliana Pulido author Andres Gutierrez-Quintero author Zoey Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 pagliai-etal-2026-spanish https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.12/ 2026-07 127 128 Omnivorous Agreement, like Uyghur Backness Harmony, is a Challenge for Tier-Based Strict Locality Allison Verbil author Tim Hunter author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026 Rob Voigt editor Alex Warstadt editor Naomi Feldman editor Tal Linzen editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA conference publication 979-8-89176-412-5 verbil-hunter-2026-omnivorous https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.13/ 2026-07 129 137 Modelling the Diachronic Emergence of Phoneme Frequency Distributions Fermin Moscoso Del Prado Martin author Suchir Salhan author 2026-07 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