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    It is not the case that If paradigm cases like structure-dependent interrogatives are shown to be learnable from available input, the inductive inference to global impoverishment lacks its evidential foundation.

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    • 1.Showing one paradigm case is learnable doesn't establish that all cases are; limited inductive success doesn't refute global claims.
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    • 2.Learning mechanisms for specific structures may require innate biases; learnability doesn't entail absence of linguistic universals or constraints.
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    • 3.The argument conflates evidential support with total justification; impoverishment has multiple independent arguments beyond single paradigm cases.
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    • 1.If structure-dependent interrogatives are learnable from input, the poverty of stimulus argument loses its key empirical motivation.
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    • 2.Paradigm cases are selected precisely because they seem most resistant to learning; demonstrating learnability there undermines the general thesis.
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    • 3.The inductive inference from specific hard cases to global impoverishment depends on those cases actually being hard; disconfirmed premises weaken conclusions.
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