Recursive misrepresentations: A reply to Levinson (2013)

Levinson 2013 (L13) argues against the idea that 'recursion, and especially recursive center-embedding, might be the core domain-specific property of language' (p. 159), citing crosslinguistic grammatical data and specific corpus studies. L13 offers an alternative: language inherits its re...

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Main Authors: Legate, Julie Anne (Author), Pesetsky, David (Contributor), Yang, Charles (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017-07-10T14:56:40Z.
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