Our second workshop took place on December 15th 2017 in Bochum (Mercator room, GA 04/187). It was oppened by Jutta Mueller’s talk on auditory sequence learning at the root of human grammar. Afterwards, five PhDs (Benjamin Angerer, Samantha Ehli, Robin Löhr, Samuel Cosper and Julia Wolf) had the opportunity to present the progress they have made on their projects so far. Edouard Machery then closed the conferences with a guest lecture on the amodal brain.