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    It is not the case that The poverty of the stimulus argument systematically underestimates the richness of input available to language learners, including statistical regularities, caregiver speech patterns, and multimodal cues.

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    • 1.Statistical patterns in input explain frequency effects but not acquisition of rare or unattested structures (e.g., recursive embedding limits).
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    • 2.Even rich input underdetermines grammar: multiple competing rule systems equally fit the data, yet children converge on one interpretation reliably.
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    • 3.Multimodal cues help pragmatics but don't explain how children master syntax-specific constraints absent from any observable input distribution.
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    • 1.Modern corpus analyses reveal learners encounter 20+ million word tokens annually, with predictable distributional patterns enabling statistical learning.
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    • 2.Caregiver speech (motherese) provides systematically simplified, repetitive, and contextually grounded input optimized for language acquisition.
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    • 3.Gesture, facial expression, and shared attention create redundant information channels that disambiguate meaning beyond linguistic structure alone.
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