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Recursion In Syntax

Recursion in Syntax is a syntactic property of natural language in which a grammatical rule or phrase structure can be applied repeatedly, allowing a constituent to contain an instance of the same type of constituent, thereby enabling the generation of infinitely nested structures within a sentence.

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Syntactic Recursion

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Toward a Connectionist Model of Recursion in Human Linguistic Performance

Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater · Cognitive Science · 1999 · 370 citations · Full text

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Comprehension syntax

Peter Buneman, Leonid Libkin, Dan Suciu et al. · ACM SIGMOD Record · 1994 · 213 citations · Full text

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A Usage‐Based Approach to Recursion in Sentence Processing

Morten H. Christiansen, Maryellen C. MacDonald · Language Learning · 2009 · 170 citations

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Recursion, Language, and Starlings

Michael C. Corballis · Cognitive Science · 2007 · 149 citations · Full text

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What is the scanpath signature of syntactic reanalysis?

Titus von der Malsburg, Shravan Vasishth · Journal of Memory and Language · 2011 · 145 citations

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Authors

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  1. MH
    Morten H. Christiansen

    Cornell University, United States

    6 publications · 715 citations

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  2. NJ
    Nicholas J. Haddock

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 152 citations

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  3. AT
    Ana Teresa Pérez‐Leroux

    University of Toronto, Canada

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  4. DM
    Diane Massam

    University of Toronto, Canada

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  5. WH
    Wolfram Hinzen

    Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain

    2 publications · 134 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    303 citations

  2. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    96 citations

  3. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    243 citations

  4. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    1.4K citations

  5. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    210 citations

  6. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    201 citations

  7. University of Warwick

    Coventry, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    479 citations

  8. IBM (United States)

    Armonk, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    80 citations

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  1. Biolinguistics

    5 publications · 242 citations

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  2. Cognitive Science

    4 publications · 613 citations

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  3. Language

    4 publications · 316 citations

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  4. The Linguistic Review

    2 publications · 52 citations

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  5. Theoretical Computer Science

    2 publications · 111 citations

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