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Abstract
Rawski <i>et al.</i> 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.