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    It is not the case that Without antecedent mutual knowledge of at least some semantic and syntactic norms, utterances would be indistinguishable from noise, precluding any post-hoc convergence.

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    • 1.Humans detect communicative intent through prosody, gesture, and context alone; semantic norms may be jointly *constructed* rather than antecedently shared.
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    • 2.Historical language emergence shows communities created novel norms post-hoc from pre-linguistic signals; mutual knowledge grew *from* convergence, not before it.
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    • 3.Statistical pattern-recognition in neural systems requires no explicit norm-knowledge; distinguishing signal from noise operates at sub-semantic levels.
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    • 1.Noise lacks systematic patterns; language requires recognizable structure, so some pre-existing norm knowledge must distinguish utterances from random acoustic signals.
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    • 2.Post-hoc convergence requires interpreting initial utterances as *meaningful attempts*—a classification impossible without baseline semantic/syntactic expectations.
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    • 3.Children acquiring language rely on caregiver modeling of norms; complete norm-absence would leave no basis for learning rather than mere mimicry.
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