>> a question is whether a software program could tractably learn language 
>> without such associations, by relying solely on statistical associations 
>> within texts. 

Isn't there an alternative (or middle ground) of starting the software program 
with a seed of initial structure and then letting it grow from there (rather 
than relying only on statistical associations -- which I believe will be 
intractable for quite some time).

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