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 phonological dependencies in human languages.

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Although Watson et al.'s study suggests nonhuman animals may be able to learn syntactic dependencies, their results also align with the learning of phonological dependencies in human languages.