Comment by roenxi
19 hours ago
We could innately have built-in statistical models, then everyone can be happy. Given how well statistics seems to work for language acquisition the brain is probably approximating a statistical formula at some level.
19 hours ago
We could innately have built-in statistical models, then everyone can be happy. Given how well statistics seems to work for language acquisition the brain is probably approximating a statistical formula at some level.
Well, Chomsky wouldn’t be happy, that’s the point of OP; he explicitly argues against this.
But the statistics only work well at vastly unrealistic scales of data, and the learning pattern doesn't match children's behaviour at all.