Screen LibraryRecursion : a computational investigation into the representation and processing of language /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Oxford studies in biolinguistics ; 6. |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 226 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [204]-219) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198785156 (hardback) : 0198785151 (hardback) 9780191827235 (electronic book) 0191827231 (electronic book) 9780191087974 (electronic book) 0191087971 (electronic book) |
| Index Number: | P98 |
| CLC: | H087 |
| Call Number: | H087/L797 |
| Contents: |
Preliminaries -- Of algorithms -- Segue -- Recursive generation in language -- introduction -- progress of the theory -- conflation of structures and mechanisms: A quick-fire review of the literature -- Via Via -- derivations into the interfaces -- issue -- components of linguistic derivations -- Interface conditions -- nature of lexical items -- internal structure of merge -- General computational principles -- non-recursive shape of derivations and the generativity of language -- universality and uniqueness of recursion-in-language -- issues -- Universality claims -- Uniqueness claims -- Concluding remarks -- On recursive parsing -- problem -- Syntactic processing reduced to its core: the computational load of building SHCs -- Experimental data -- Experiment 1 -- Experiment 2 -- Discussion -- Remarks regarding a certain theory -- Probing recursion -- alternatives -- Recursive processes in problem-solving tasks -- Recursive representations without recursive processes -- Artificial grammar learning -- Self-embedded structures and reasoning -- Recursive signatures? -- Concluding remarks. |