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What we decided to do with a succession of further students was to look at cases of much more radical deprivation of input. Assuming that what you learn is an infinite set of relations between forms and meanings, the input has to be forms and meanings in some way. The first thing you would think of is you hear your mother say “Blah blah blah,” and a dog walks by. So you learn that dog means “dog.” I have only begged about four hundred questions in so saying, but that's the start of the idea.