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    It is not the case that A construction's absence from natural usage cannot establish cognitive inaccessibility, since frequency reflects pragmatic and stylistic pressures independent of grammatical processing capacity.

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    • 1.Usage frequency strongly correlates with processing fluency; rarity itself may indicate genuine cognitive difficulty.
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    • 2.Distinguishing 'rarely used but possible' from 'cognitively inaccessible' requires independent evidence beyond absence.
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    • 3.Some constructions genuinely exceed working memory or parsing capacity; low frequency may reflect this, not just style.
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    • 1.Language users avoid rare constructions due to communicative efficiency and social norms, not grammatical impossibility.
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    • 2.Children acquire complex recursive structures they rarely hear, proving comprehension capacity exceeds natural frequency.
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    • 3.Register variation shows speakers competently produce structures absent from casual speech but present in technical domains.
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