--- title: "Yair Lakretz — author profile and papers" description: "Yair Lakretz, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2023), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yair-lakretz/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yair-lakretz/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yair Lakretz # Yair Lakretz Yair Lakretz has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/), [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/); often with [Dieuwke Hupkes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dieuwke-hupkes/), [German Kruszewski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/german-kruszewski/), [Marco Baroni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-baroni/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5059697591) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8774-6427) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5059697591) · [55 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059697591) · [1,295 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059697591&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yair-lakretz/#papers) · [🔗 1,267 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yair-lakretz/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3758](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/38/#star-3758) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Yair+Lakretz) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yair+Lakretz) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yair+Lakretz) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yair+Lakretz) ## Affiliations [🔬**École Normale Supérieure - PSL** Paris · France 2023–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ecole-normale-superieure-psl/) · [🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 2024–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🎓**Université Paris Sciences et Lettres** Paris · France 2023–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-sciences-et-lettres/) · [🔬**Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique** Paris · France 2024–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-de-sciences-cognitives-et-psycholinguistique/) · [🔬**École des hautes études en sciences sociales** Paris · France 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ecole-des-hautes-etudes-en-sciences-sociales/) · [🏛️**Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives** Paris · France 2020–2025 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/commissariat-a-l-energie-atomique-et-aux-energies-alternatives/) · [🔬**Inserm** Paris · France 2020–2025 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/inserm/) · [🎓**Université Paris-Saclay** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 2020–2025 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-saclay/) · [🔬**Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 2020–2024 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/056wdpc91) · [🏛️**CEA Paris-Saclay** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 2020–2023 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/03n15ch10) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 10 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/evanson-2023-language-acquisition-children-language-models/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lakretz-2019-emergence-number-syntax-units-lstm/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The emergence of number and syntax units in LSTM language models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lakretz-2019-emergence-number-syntax-units-lstm/)** *(2019 · 194 citations)* LSTM language models handle long-distance subject–verb number agreement well, but it was unclear whether they rely on real syntactic structure or on shallow cues. 2. **[Language acquisition: do children and language models follow similar learning stages?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/evanson-2023-language-acquisition-children-language-models/)** *(2023 · 33 citations)* Children acquire language in a consistent order: first sounds, then words, and later increasingly complex syntax. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dieuwke Hupkes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dieuwke-hupkes/) - [German Kruszewski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/german-kruszewski/) - [Marco Baroni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-baroni/) - [Theo Desbordes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/theo-desbordes/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,267 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [141 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yair-lakretz/cited-by/).