@inproceedings{maraia-etal-2026-sounding, title = "Sounding vs. Being an Expert: Disentangling Authority, Register and Cultural Impact in Sycophantic {LLM}s", author = "Maraia, Gabriele and Zanzotto, Fabio Massimo and Ranaldi, Leonardo", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.1627/", pages = "32492--32508", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }