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    It is not the case that If underdetermination is a general feature of all inductive learning, the purported uniqueness of language acquisition is illusory rather than principled.

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    • 1.Language poverty of stimulus is qualitatively different: children master recursive syntax from finite, degraded input in ways vision learners do not.
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    • 2.Other domains show developmental trajectories matching statistical learning from environmental data; language acquisition violates these patterns fundamentally.
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    • 3.Underdetermination being general doesn't entail all domains face it equally; degree and structure of underdetermination can still support meaningful distinctions.
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    • 1.Underdetermination affects vision, motor learning, and concept formation similarly to language, suggesting no principled distinction exists.
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    • 2.Universal grammar posits innate constraints to resolve underdetermination, yet vision and motor systems also require domain-specific priors.
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    • 3.The claim of language's uniqueness relies on comparing language acquisition to an idealized, unrealistic learning scenario lacking innate structure.
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