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- Non-adjacent dependencies (NADs) are central building blocks of human language.
- Electrophysiology shows infants’ early learning of NADs in auditory sequences. - Electrophysiology shows similar NAD learning in non-human primates and human infants.
- Auditory sequencing seems to work as a scaffold for the evolution of human syntax.
- Infants often outperform adults in automatic rule extraction from auditory sequences.