Language and Recursion

Part I. What Is Recursion?

1. Pragmatics as the Origin of Recursion
Stephen C. Levinson

2. Investigating Recursion Within a Domain-Specific Framework
Maurício Dias Martins, William Tecumseh Fitch

3. Recursive Cognition as a Prelude to Language
Michael C. Corballis

Part II. Non-verbal Communication Devices, Implicit Learning, Language and Recursion

4. Nonverbal Communication Devices, Language, Cerebral Flexibility, and Recursive Exercises
Francis Lowenthal, Laurent Lefebvre

5. Computer Simulations of Recursive Exercises for a Nonverbal Communication Device
Philippe Fortemps, Francis Lowenthal, Vincent Wautié

6. Implicit Learning and Recursion
M. Rohrmeier, Z. Dienes, X. Guo, Q. Fu

Part III. Emergence of Grammar in Human and Non-human Animal Communication

7. Early Rule-Learning Ability and Language Acquisition
Judit Gervain

8. Is There a Brain Basis of Recursion?
Angela D. Friederici

9. Primate Communication: Meaning from Strings of Calls
Klaus Zuberbühler, Alban Lemasson

Part IV. About Formal Grammars and Artificial Intelligence

10. Unification and Efficient Computation in the Minimalist Program
Sandiway Fong

11. Recursion in Generative Grammar
Robert Freidin

12. Computational Language Related to Recursion, Incursion and Fractal
Daniel M. Dubois

Part V. Philosophy, Recursion and Language

13. Consciousness, Recursion and Language
Roger Vergauwen

14. There Is No Recursion in Language
Pierre Frath

Part VI. Synthesis of the Main Discussion Sessions

15. Synthesis of the Main Discussions
Francis Lowenthal

Nyckelord: Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics