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6. Recursion and the infinitude claim

  • Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz
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Recursion and Human Language
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of Contents v
  3. Part I. Discussing the need for recursion on empirical grounds
  4. 1. Pirahã – in need of recursive syntax? 1
  5. 2. The fluidity of recursion and its implications 17
  6. 3. Syntactic recursion and iteration 43
  7. 4. Recursion in conversation: What speakers of Finnish and Japanese know how to do 69
  8. 5. What do you think is the proper place of recursion? Conceptual and empirical issues 93
  9. Part II. Formal Issues
  10. 6. Recursion and the infinitude claim 111
  11. 7. Just how big are natural languages? 139
  12. 8. Recursion, infinity, and modeling 147
  13. 9. How recursive is language? A Bayesian exploration 159
  14. Part III. Evolutionary Perspectives
  15. 10. Was recursion the key step in the evolution of the human language faculty? 177
  16. 11. When clauses refuse to be recursive: An evolutionary perspective 193
  17. 12. The use of formal language theory in studies of artificial language learning: A proposal for distinguishing the differences between human and nonhuman animal learners 213
  18. 13. Over the top: Recursion as a functional option 233
  19. Part IV. Recursion and the Lexicon
  20. 14. Lack of recursion in the lexicon: The two-argument restriction 245
  21. 15. Kinds of recursion in Adyghe morphology 263
  22. 16. Recursion and the Lexicon 285
  23. Part V. Recursion outside Syntax
  24. 17. A note on recursion in phonology 299
  25. 18. Cognitive grouping and recursion in prosody 343
  26. 19. Becoming recursive: Toward a computational neuroscience account of recursion in language and thought 371
  27. 20. Recursion in severe agrammatism 393
  28. Backmatter 407
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