Comment on "Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans"

Jonathan Rawski; William Idsardi; Jeffrey Heinz

doi:10.1126/sciadv.abg0455

Comment on "Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans"

Jonathan Rawski
, William Idsardi
, Jeffrey Heinz

Linguistics

Stony Brook University
University of Maryland, College Park

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We comment on the technical interpretation of the study of Watson et al. and caution against their conclusion that the behavioral evidence in their experiments points to nonhuman animals' ability to learn syntactic dependencies, because their results are also consistent with the learning of phonological dependencies in human languages.

Original language	English
Article number	eabg0455
Journal	Science Advances
Volume	7
Issue number	30
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg0455
State	Published - Jul 2021

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