CLDec 15, 2025
Large language models are not about languageJohan J. Bolhuis, Andrea Moro, Stephen Crain et al.
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.