Comment on “Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans”

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 phonolog...

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Autores principales: Rawski, Jonathan, Idsardi, William, Heinz, Jeffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021
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Technical Comments
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8294766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34290092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg0455
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Sumario: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.

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