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    It is not the case that Tomasello's usage-based account demonstrates that children acquire grammatical constructions through item-specific learning and social cognition, without invoking language-specific constraints.

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    • 1.Children acquire some grammatical distinctions (e.g., mass/count nouns) too rapidly and consistently to rely on statistical learning alone.
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    • 2.Usage-based accounts struggle to explain why certain logically possible constructions never emerge across any human language.
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    • 3.Item-specific learning predicts high individual variation; yet children converge on grammar quickly, suggesting domain-specific biases.
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    • 1.Children learn constructions like 'go + verb' by storing specific utterances, then generalizing patterns through frequency and analogy.
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    • 2.Social-pragmatic cues (eye gaze, intention-reading) explain how children map words to meanings without innate grammatical categories.
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    • 3.Cross-linguistic variation in grammar structure challenges universal constraints; usage patterns better explain observed diversity.
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