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    It is not the case that Lexical knowledge and stereotyped behavioral patterns can drive natural language interpretation nearly to the exclusion of syntax

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    • 1.Chomsky's poverty of the stimulus argument establishes that surface lexical frequencies cannot account for the abstract syntactic knowledge humans demonstrably possess.
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    • 2.Systems that succeed on stereotyped narratives systematically fail on syntactically marked constructions like center-embedded clauses, revealing an undischarged dependency on syntax.
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    • 3.Success within a constrained corpus (restaurant scripts, etc.) confounds lexical-semantic sufficiency with domain restriction, not genuine syntactic dispensability.
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    • 1.Structural ambiguities like 'The horse raced past the barn fell' are unresolvable by lexical or script knowledge alone, requiring hierarchical syntactic parsing to assign correct argument structure.
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    • 2.Fodor and Bever's click-displacement experiments empirically demonstrate that humans track phrasal constituency independently of semantic content, evidence of autonomous syntactic processing.
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    • 1.Lexical interpretation of verbs (e.g., 'go' as ptrans) generates conceptual role configurations that constrain what constituents are expected
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    • 2.Script instantiation triggered by lexical and semantic cues creates expectations about likely action sequences without requiring syntactic analysis
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    • 3.This approach achieved unprecedented successes in machine understanding of paragraph-length stories
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