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Investigating Critical Period Effects in Language Acquisition through Neural Language Models

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Main Authors:	Constantinescu, Ionut, Pimentel, Tiago, Cotterell, Ryan, Warstadt, Alex
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Computation and Language
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