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    It is not the case that Successful linguistic communication requires that speakers and hearers share referential commitments, not merely grammatical conventions.

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    • 1.People successfully communicate about fictional entities, hypotheticals, and abstract concepts without shared real-world referents.
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    • 2.Children acquire language competence through grammatical pattern-matching before fully understanding adult referential commitments.
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    • 3.Communication success is context-dependent; sometimes shared grammar suffices when referential ambiguity doesn't affect practical outcomes.
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    • 1.Grammatical rules alone allow speakers to construct sentences without understanding what words refer to in the world.
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    • 2.Historical examples show communication failures occur when speakers and hearers assign different referents to the same words.
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    • 3.A listener can recognize grammatically correct speech while remaining genuinely confused about what is being discussed or asserted.
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