According to the 'Poverty of the Stimulus' argument, a child cannot learn their first language solely through observation because the available stimuli from adult speakers are insufficient to enable the production of grammatically correct sentences or prevent the production of incorrect ones.

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  Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• language acquisition concept