“…In accordance, a series of behavioural studies has suggested that sequential learning in the linguistic and non-linguistic domains is affected in children with DLD ( Hsu and Bishop, 2014 ; Lum et al, 2014 ; but see West et al, 2018 ; West et al, 2021 ). In studies that probe complex sequential production in the vocal domain, the dorsal striatum is implicated ( Rauschecker et al, 2008 ; Simmonds et al, 2014 ; Skipper et al, 2020 ). The striatum is structurally and functionally connected to regions associated with language production, with the head of the dorsolateral caudate nucleus receiving inputs from inferior frontal cortex, and the putamen receiving inputs from motor, premotor, and supplementary motor cortex ( Alexander et al, 1986 ; Jarbo and Verstynen, 2015 ; Lima et al, 2016 ).…”