Kyle Mahowald

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2023–2025

Kyle Mahowald wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2023–2025, most of them on Discourse analysis; often with Junyi Jessy Li, William Sheffield, Ashwini Deo.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

Causal Interventions Reveal Shared Structure Across English Filler–Gap Constructions (2025)
The paper asks whether a language model uses one shared mechanism for several English filler–gap constructions (embedded wh-questions, matrix wh-questions, relative clauses, clefts, pseudo-clefts, topicalization).
Is It \textit JUST Semantics? A Case Study of Discourse Particle Understanding in LLMs (2025)
The English discourse particle "just" has several senses: exclusive ("Betsy just eats chicken nuggets"), temporal ("just arrived"), unelaboratory ("Fido is just a dog"), unexplanatory ("the lights just turn on and off") and emphatic ("just delicious").
Elaborative Simplification as Implicit Questions Under Discussion (2023)
When editors simplify news for children (Newsela), they often add sentences that explain rather than shorten.