Therefore, one cannot use statistical reasoning to draw conclusions about the rules of grammar.
Is this, actually, the argument Chomsky made? Because looking at Wikipedia, it says
This was used then as a counter-example to the idea that the human speech engine was based upon statistical models
which is a very different thing.
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