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Recursion: Complexity in Cognition

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Editors:
  1. Tom Roeper

    1. Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

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  2. Margaret Speas

    1. Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Minimal Recursion: Exploring the Prospects

    • Noam Chomsky
    Pages 1-15

  3. Recursion Restrictions: Where Grammars Count

    • Hilda Koopman
    Pages 17-38

  4. Deriving the Two-Argument Restriction Without Recursion

    • Eva Juarros-Daussà
    Pages 39-57

  5. Embedding Illocutionary Acts

    • Manfred Krifka
    Pages 59-87

  6. Recursion, Legibility, Use

    • Peter Ludlow
    Pages 89-112

  7. Recursion and Truth

    • Wolfram Hinzen
    Pages 113-137

  8. Recursion in Language: Is It Indirectly Constrained?

    • Aravind K. Joshi
    Pages 139-158

  9. Recursion in Grammar and Performance

    • Edward P. Stabler
    Pages 159-177

  10. Empirical Results and Formal Approaches to Recursion in Acquisition

    • Bart Hollebrandse, Tom Roeper
    Pages 179-219

  11. Recursive Complements and Propositional Attitudes

    • Jill de Villiers, Kathryn Hobbs, Bart Hollebrandse
    Pages 221-242

  12. Recursive Merge and Human Language Evolution

    • Koji Fujita
    Pages 243-264

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 265-267
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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 to linguistics and cognitive science and other leading researchers in the fields of philosophy, semantics, computer science and psycholinguistics in showing the profound reach of this concept into modern science. Recursion has been at the heart of generative grammar from the outset. Recent work in minimalism has put it at center-stage with a wide range of consequences across the intellectual landscape. The contributor to this volume both advance the field and provide a cross-sectional view of the place that recursion takes in modern science.

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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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

    Tom Roeper, Margaret Speas

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