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Universals Of Recursion

Universals of Recursion is a theoretical construct in linguistics that posits recursion as a universal syntactic property of natural languages, distinguishing it from other proposed linguistic universals by specifying the capacity for recursive embedding as the defining characteristic of human language faculty.

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2017–2026

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The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science

Nicholas Evans, Stephen C. Levinson · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2009 · 2.6K citations · Full text

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The recursive mind: the origins of human language, thought and civilization

Robert K. Logan · Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · 2012 · 104 citations · Full text

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A Corpus Investigation of Syntactic Embedding in Pirahã

Richard Futrell, Laura Stearns, Daniel L. Everett et al. · PLoS ONE · 2016 · 68 citations · Full text

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What does Pirahã grammar have to teach us about human language and the mind?

Daniel L. Everett · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science · 2012 · 59 citations · Full text

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Recursion as a Human Universal and as a Primitive

Boban Arsenijević, Wolfram Hinzen · Biolinguistics · 2010 · 49 citations · Full text

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Authors

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    Daniel L. Everett

    Bentley University, United States

    2 publications · 127 citations

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    Wolfram Hinzen

    Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain

    1 publications · 49 citations

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  3. SC
    Stephen C. Levinson

    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

    1 publications · 2.6K citations

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  4. RF
    Richard Futrell

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    1 publications · 68 citations

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  5. EG
    Edward Gibson

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    1 publications · 68 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Bentley University

    Waltham, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    127 citations

  2. University of Colorado Colorado Springs

    Colorado Springs, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    120 citations

  3. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    104 citations

  4. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    2.6K citations

  5. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    2.6K citations

  6. Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics

    Berlin, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  7. University of Kansas

    Lawrence, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  8. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    2.6K citations

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  2. Biolinguistics

    2 publications · 86 citations

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  3. Journal of Symbolic Logic

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  4. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

    JMMD · 1 publications · 104 citations

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  5. PLoS ONE

    1 publications · 68 citations

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