Recursion: Complexity in Cognition
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"The papers in this well-edited and well-written book are the results of a 2009 conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. . I highly recommend this well-edited collection to researchers and students interested in this topic." (Burkhard Englert, Computing Reviews, January, 2015)
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Introduction.- Minimal Recursion: Exploring the Prospects.- Recursion Restrictions: Where Grammars Count.- Deriving the Two-argument Restriction without Recursion.- Embedding Illocutionary Acts.- Recursion, Legibility, Use.- Recursion and Truth.- Recursion in Language: Is it Indirectly constrained?.- Recursion in Grammar and Performance.- Empirical Results and Formal Approaches to Recursion in Acquisition.- Recursive Complements and Propositional Attitudes.- Recursive Merge and Human Language Evolution.
