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    Challenges→The discrete infinity posited by HCF (Hauser, Chomsky, Fitch) is more plausibly a property of Essentialists' generative model of linguistic competence than a property of the human mind/brain.

    If there are no generative grammars in speakers' heads, then speakers do not have grammars in their heads generating infinite languages.

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    Some Externalists and Emergentists actually reject the idea that the human capacity for language yields “a potentially infinite array of expressions”. It is often pointed out by empirically inclined computational linguists that in practice there will only ever be a finite number of sentences to be dealt with (though the people saying this may underestimate the sheer vastness of the finite set involved). And naturally, for those who do not believe there are generative grammars in speakers’ heads

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