This paper identifies the Swahili phenomenon of double agreement control as a structural anomaly and treats it as an architectural property that transcends purely descriptive linguistic analysis. Double control is formalized as an autonomous feature-validation mechanism, revealing a fundamental mismatch between natural language constructions and the computational behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs), which inherently tend to conflate two distinct truth-conditional channels into a single latent representational stream (h(N) ∈ ℝᵈ).
The paper proposes:
A formal characterization of the dual-channel control architecture as an ontological validation protocol.
A diagnostic test that is, by construction, inaccessible to surface-level heuristics. Success is defined by the statistical independence of channels: Δperp(C₁) ⊥ Δperp(C₂).
An engineering testbench comprising minimal pairs, conflict pairs, phase-shift configurations, and counterfactual scenarios.
The central contribution is the reframing of double control from a post-hoc behavioral metric into a criterion of a priori architectural adequacy: an architecture must demonstrably support two independently maintained channels prior to training. An architecture is deemed inadequate if the controller projections are indistinguishable in latent space: max_l cos(h_l(C₁), h_l(C₂)) > 1 - δ.
Furthermore, the paper establishes the economic efficiency of the proposed filter. Implementing this testbench at t=0 prevents massive misallocation of computational resources on structurally deficient architectures:
Savings = P(collapse) × (C_pretrain + C_patch) - C_test.
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