Recursion: Complexity in Cognition

Tom Roeper, Margaret Speas (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XXI, 271 Seiten

2014
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-05085-0 (ISBN)

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

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.

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.

From the book reviews:

"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)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.6.2014
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
Zusatzinfo	XXI, 271 p. 71 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	574 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	broad faculty of language • direct and indirect recursion • Hauser Chomsky Fitch • 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
ISBN-10	3-319-05085-0 / 3319050850
ISBN-13	978-3-319-05085-0 / 9783319050850
Zustand	Neuware