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    It is not the case that The gap between what we know about language and the data we learn it from largely disappears.

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    • 1.A more 'user-friendly' conception of natural language grammars can be adopted.
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    • 2.The conception of language-relevant information available to children learning language can be radically expanded.
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    • 1.Usage-based models (Tomasello, Goldberg) show children acquire constructions from dense, statistically regular input patterns without abstract rules.
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    • 2.Corpus studies of child-directed speech reveal far higher token frequency of target structures than early poverty-of-stimulus arguments assumed.
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    • 3.When grammar is reconceived as a network of form-meaning pairings rather than generative rules, the purported 'gap' collapses into a tractable learning problem.
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    • 1.Bayesian models (Tenenbaum, Perfors) demonstrate that hierarchical phrase structure can be inferred from indirect evidence via rational statistical inference.
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    • 2.The 'radical expansion' of available data includes prosodic cues, pragmatic context, and cross-situational statistics that behaviorist poverty arguments systematically ignored.
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