Overview
- Original contributions by a stellar group of authors including Noam Chomsky
- Perspectives on the core property of human language from computer science, philosophy, psycholinguistics, evolutionary biology, semantics and syntax
- Empirical evidence applied to language variation, experimentation and parsing models
Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 43)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Keywords
- Hauser Chomsky Fitch
- broad faculty of language
- direct and indirect recursion
- human language evolution
- human language structures
- interdisiplinary approach to language acquisition
- language acquisition recursion
- minimalistic framework
- narrow faculty of language
- noam chomsky
- parsing models
- philosophy of language
- recursion cognition
- recursion in language
- recursive complements
- sentential recursion
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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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recursion: Complexity in Cognition
Editors: Tom Roeper, Margaret Speas
Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05086-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05085-0Published: 25 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15574-6Published: 04 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05086-7Published: 05 June 2014
Series ISSN: 1873-0043
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 271
Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psycholinguistics, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Philosophy of Language, Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences