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    Challenges→Chomskyans must be credited with holding that the primary linguistic data are impoverished quite generally.

    Crediting Chomskyans with a 'general impoverishment' thesis conflates the logical structure of individual learnability arguments with a sweeping nativist doctrine they need not endorse.

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    Chomskyans(as a group of researchers and theorists)
    Followers of Noam Chomsky, a famous linguist who argued that humans are born with an innate ability to learn language, rather than learning it entirely from experience.
    Endorse(as used in this philosophical argument)
    To approve of, support, or agree with something.
    Impoverishment thesis(as a linguistic theory)
    The idea that something (in this case, language learning data) is too limited or insufficient on its own to explain how people learn.
    Learnability arguments(as used in language acquisition theory)
    Philosophical or scientific arguments about what is possible for someone to learn and how they could learn it.
    Logical structure(as used in logic)

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    Nativist doctrine(as applied to language learning)
    A theory claiming that humans are born with certain knowledge or abilities built into our brains, rather than acquiring them all from the world around us.

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