Recursion: Complexity in Cognition

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Roeper, Tom (Editor), Speas, Margaret (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 43
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Mathematical logic.; Mathematics.; Social sciences.; Psycholinguistics.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Philosophy of Language.; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

This volume focuses on recursion and reveals a host of new theoretical arguments, philosophical perspectives, formal representations, and empirical evidence from parsing, acquisition, and computer models, highlighting its central role in modern science. Noam Chomsky, whose work introduced recursion...

Table of Contents:

• 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.