LLMs recover only ~20% of explicit pragmatic shifts under implicit cultural cues across five languages, responding mainly to linguistic structure rather than cultural associations as shown by Hindi-Urdu controls.
Computational evidence that H indi and U rdu share a grammar but not the lexicon
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Do LLMs Use Cultural Knowledge Without Being Told? A Multilingual Evaluation of Implicit Pragmatic Adaptation
LLMs recover only ~20% of explicit pragmatic shifts under implicit cultural cues across five languages, responding mainly to linguistic structure rather than cultural associations as shown by Hindi-Urdu controls.