Reply to comment on “Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans”

Stuart K. Watson; Judith M. Burkart; Steven J. Schapiro; Susan P. Lambeth; Jutta L. Mueller; Simon W. Townsend

doi:10.1126/sciadv.abj1517

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Reply to comment on “Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans”

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Stuart K. Watson

Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich

Judith M. Burkart

Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich

Steven J. Schapiro

UT MD Anderson Cancer Research Center

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Abstract

Rawski et al. revisit our recent findings suggesting the latent ability to process nonadjacent dependencies (“Non-ADs”) in monkeys and apes. Specifically, the authors question the relevance of our findings for the evolution of human syntax. We argue that (i) these conclusions hinge upon an assumption that language processing is necessarily hierarchical, which remains an open question, and (ii) our goal was to probe the foundational cognitive mechanisms facilitating the processing of syntactic Non-ADs—namely, the ability to recognize predictive relationships in the input.

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Multidisciplinary

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journal article

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Englisch [eng]

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phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1611209

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10.1126/sciadv.abj1517

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