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Large language models have learned to use language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2026

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Gary Lupyan*
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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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 49 , 2026 , e213
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