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Direct linkChristiansen, Morten H.; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Language Learning, 2009
Most current approaches to linguistic structure suggest that language is recursive, that recursion is a fundamental property of grammar, and that independent performance constraints limit recursive abilities that would otherwise be infinite. This article presents a usage-based perspective on recursive sentence processing, in which recursion is…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Language Usage, Grammar
