Language and Recursion

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lowenthal, Francis (Editor), Lefebvre, Laurent (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psycholinguistics.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.

As humans, our many levels of language use distinguish us from the rest of the animal world. For many scholars, it is the recursive aspect of human speech that makes it truly human. But linguists continue to argue about what recursion actually is, leading to the central dilemma: is full recursion, a...