Large language models have learned to use language
Computation and Language
2025-12-16 v1
Abstract
Acknowledging that large language models have learned to use language can open doors to breakthrough language science. Achieving these breakthroughs may require abandoning some long-held ideas about how language knowledge is evaluated and reckoning with the difficult fact that we have entered a post-Turing test era.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.12447,
title = {Large language models have learned to use language},
author = {Gary Lupyan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12447},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Commentary on Futrell & Mahowald's How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models (BBS, Forthcoming)