Language models show idiom decomposability correlates weakly with human judgments, negatively with syntactic flexibility, and contributes most strongly to representation stabilization during training alongside surprisal and frequency.
Psycholinguistic studies on the syntactic behavior of idioms
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Rethinking the Idiomaticity Decomposability Hypothesis: Evidence from Distributional Learning
Language models show idiom decomposability correlates weakly with human judgments, negatively with syntactic flexibility, and contributes most strongly to representation stabilization during training alongside surprisal and frequency.