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    It is not the case that Computational models trained on realistic child-directed corpora successfully acquire structure-dependent rules without innate grammatical constraints, as Pullum and Scholz demonstrate.

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    • 1.Computational models and children differ fundamentally in learning mechanisms, memory constraints, and developmental timelines.
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    • 2.Successfully matching adult competence doesn't prove learning pathways are identical or that innateness claims are invalidated.
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    • 3.Child-directed corpora may still be impoverished relative to implicit feedback and social-pragmatic cues children actually receive.
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    • 1.Child-directed speech contains sufficient distributional cues for structure-dependence without explicit grammatical instruction.
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    • 2.Modern neural architectures capture relevant statistical patterns in realistic linguistic input with minimal inductive bias.
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    • 3.Pullum and Scholz's corpus analysis demonstrates the poverty-of-stimulus argument relies on idealized rather than actual data.
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