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The Pragmatic Mind of Machines: Tracing the Emergence of Pragmatic Competence in Large Language Models

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Main Authors:	Yu, Kefan, Zeng, Qingcheng, Xuan, Weihao, Li, Wanxin, Wu, Jingyi, Voigt, Rob
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language
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