@article{causaldrawbridgescharacterizinggradientb, title = {Causal Drawbridges: Characterizing Gradient Blocking of Syntactic Islands in Transformer LMs}, author = {Sasha Boguraev and Kyle Mahowald}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.13950}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13950}, }