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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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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spelling pubmed-82947662021-08-03 Comment on “Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans” Rawski, Jonathan Idsardi, William Heinz, Jeffrey Sci Adv Technical Comments 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. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8294766/ /pubmed/34290092 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg0455 Text en Copyright © 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
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url 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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