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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Availability of additional data doesn't resolve whether learners can mechanistically extract the right generalizations from statistical patterns alone.
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    • 2.Prosodic and pragmatic cues may be necessary but insufficient; some grammatical constraints (e.g., structure-dependence) appear underdetermined by any learnable statistics.
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    • 3.Showing richer input exists doesn't demonstrate children actually use these cues effectively or that they eliminate poverty-of-stimulus problems entirely.
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    • 1.Prosodic cues (stress, intonation) disambiguate syntactic structures children encounter, reducing inferential load beyond what text-only stimuli suggest.
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    • 2.Cross-situational statistics (tracking word co-occurrence across contexts) enable learners to extract meaning without explicit instruction or innate principles.
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    • 3.Behaviorist poverty arguments relied on impoverished input models; enriched data availability undermines their central empirical premise.
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