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    It is not the case that Chomsky's internalist program, and Fodor's representationalist successor, demonstrate that apparently heterogeneous linguistic phenomena reduce to a single natural kind: I-language as a biological-computational state.

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    • 1.Pragmatics, discourse, and social context systematically shape linguistic form—not reducible to internalist computation alone.
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    • 2.Universal Grammar claims lack empirical refutation mechanisms and rest on circular reasoning about language learnability.
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    • 3.Linguistic diversity in argument structure, word order, and morphology resists reduction to a single natural kind.
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    • 1.Syntactic universals across unrelated languages suggest a shared biological substrate underlying surface diversity.
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    • 2.Neural correlates of grammar show localized brain regions (Broca's area) processing syntactic structure independently.
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    • 3.Recursive embedding, discrete infinity, and structure-dependence appear in all languages but not animal communication.
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