Even more crucial is that children learn language in situations of actual language use. The things and situations that are spoken about are often at hand in som

Even more crucial is that children learn language in situations of actual language use. The things and situations that are spoken about are often at hand in some way, and there is a large social element. No matter how close you might get to "the language learning algorithm", if all you're feeding it is text, it's not going to learn the same thing that kids learn. The data is simply not there.