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font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Linguistics Meets ChatGPT: From Prompt to Theory</i></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;">https://www.gaussaiglobal.com/LingTransformer</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;">Forthcoming:</span></div><p class="p1"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cb4d6a4e-7fff-627d-d79a-bbe10de9f1a8" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manova, S. 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