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Rekursion und syntaktische Komplexität im Lichte der psycho- und neurolinguistischen Forschung

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Sękowska J.
Germanica Wratislaviensia
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2016
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vol. 141
305-318
DE
Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird die Frage nach der potentiellen Implementierung der rekursiven AnBn--Strukturen durch den Mechanismus der Satzverarbeitung behandelt. Es wird darauf hingewiesen, dass die einfachste Verarbeitungsstrategie, wo die adjazenten Sequenzen von zwei Kategorien A und B aufgezählt und verglichen werden, wegen der asymmetrischen Struktur der zentral-eingebetteten syntaktischen Abhängigkeiten keine Anwendung bei der kognitiven Verarbeitung finden kann.
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This article is devoted to the issue of the potential implementation of recursive AnBn structures by the sentence-processing mechanism. Worth noting is the fact that the simplest processing strategy, whereby categories A and B are listed and compared, cannot be applied to the cognitive processing of asymmetric structures of centrally embedded syntactic dependencies.
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Przyczynek do studiów nad biologiczną ewolucją komunikacji. Na tropie pewnej hipotezy

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Nowak T.
Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies
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2015
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issue 1
133-147
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The article is  a  reconnaissance. The  author of  the  paper aims at  providing a  comparison of  mathematical and empirical results of  research on the  evolution of  language. The  content of  the  paper focuses on issues relating to the emergence of  language. The author seeks to answer the question: What differentiates human and animal communication?
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Characteristics of Recursive Structures of Modernity

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Zajchenko M., Yakovleva E.
Dialogue and Universalism
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2014
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issue 3
145-150
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The focus of the authors’ interest is recursion, serving as one of the principles of de-sign and existence of hierarchical systems. Its features are among others the infinite self-transformation associated with the return and playback based on the algorithm of its own unfolding, by analogy, which ensures the movement inward, on the basis of which complication of the system takes place. This method is quite common in cultural space, giving rise to a situation of multiplicity of values and interpretations.
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The Boundaries of Lexical Innovation within a Question-Defined Semantic Cohort

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Carvajal C. A. B.
Open Linguistics
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2014
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vol. 1
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issue 1
EN
This study explores the amount of lexical innovation (hapax legomena or non repeated words) during a question-led (i.e. semi spontaneous) spoken word production task. Native adult non-impaired Spanish speakers (n = 8) were asked the same question 8 times with an interval of one day each; 4 participants answered the stimulus question in L1 and 4 did so in English. Participants were also given specific instructions to avoid conscious verbal monitoring, specially trying to evade or emphasise word repetition. Their responses were not time controlled. Quantitative word analysis reveals all subjects have recourse to an increased percentage of lexical recycling (vocabulary repetition), idiomatic and phraseology recurrence, as well as a limited percentage of lexical innovation or hapax. These findings are of interest to foreign language acquisition research, curricula design and idiolect re-encoding because they suggest that thematic-bound unities of thought elicited in word production are stable and comprise a major portion of all verbal content. These results may call into question the pertinence and efficacy of traditional syllabi focusing on linguistic points rather than on the role of recycling thematic-dependent learners’ verbal repertoire.
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Fractal metaphor LIFE IS A STORY in biographical narrative

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Bystrov Y.
Topics in Linguistics
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2014
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vol. 14
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issue 1
1-8
EN
The paper applies an interdisciplinary perspective to a fictional text showing that fractals as mathematical models are a powerful tool for conceptualizing life experience in biographical narratives. The multilevel construction of Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd is explored on the basis of fractal metaphor theory. This research focuses on the LIFE IS A STORY conceptual fractal metaphor which is built up on analogical mappings, mental space connections, and blends. The fractal model of metaphor in biographical narrative, which is assigned to the formula LIFE IS A STORY f (1) + f (2) + f (3) + … + f (n), contains the mental space of the intentional source domain story, which provides a way to structure the understanding of the limiting target domain of the concept life. Fractal metaphors aim at making the conceptual metaphor flexible and dynamic, renewing its ability of self-development and self-perfection, transforming itself into one of the means of changeable conceptualization of reality.
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No successful infinite regress

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Luna L.
Logic and Logical Philosophy
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2014
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vol. 23
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issue 2
189–201
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We model infinite regress structures — not arguments — by means of ungrounded recursively defined functions in order to show that no such structure can perform the task of providing determination to the items composing it, that is, that no determination process containing an infinite regress structure is successful.
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Origins of the (A)symmetry of Modern Ukrainian Prose: H. Kvitka‑Osnovyanenko’s Text Production Models

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Назаров Н., Nazarov N.
Slavia Orientalis
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2022
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vol. LXXI
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issue 1
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A Hypothesis on the Catastrophic Emergence of Syntax and Phonetics

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Napierała S.
Academic Journal of Modern Philology
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2014
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vol. 3
55-65
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There are two major theories about the origin of human syntax: evolutionary and catastrophic, the latter appears more probable on theoretical and empirical grounds, the most serious reason being the problem with imagining the intermediate stages between protosyntax and full-blown syntax (Bickerton 1998). The “missing link” is recently often associated with recursion, a sole element of human syntax considered specifically human and specifically linguistic. Some accounts associate this trigger with a subpart of recursion, either operation Merge or a subpart of Merge, operation Label (Hornstein 2009) which by breaking the initial symmetry provides a sine qua non condition for asymmetric syntax in terms of endocentricity, phrase structure and, consequently, recursive embedding. My hypothesis is that assuming the catastrophic scenario, more than one catastrophic event must have happened in a very short time. Given that human vocal tract and human phonetics and phonology have several unique features compared with Great Apes (hierarchical but non-recursive structure, speech imitation skills, abundant use of formants, lack of laryngeal air sacks in the vocal tract) and given that the phonological form constitutes the interface of the human syntax, the mere addition of Label to the already existing operations of the protolanguage is insufficient, since (1) it does not account for the emergence of the phonologically interfaced syntax, (2) it fails to explain the indisociability of non-syntactic elements of language in terms of phonology, semantics and syntax as evidenced in Jackendoff (2011). Consequently, I assume that human language emerged as a result of at least two catastrophic processes: catastrophic emergence of phonetics and catastrophic emergence of syntax accompanied by the rapid expansion of the lexicon, the latter possibly as a result of a quantitative rather than qualitative development. The emergence of human phonology might have occurred gradually, but as a result of the catastrophic emergence of phonetics.
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Rekursja jako wspólna podstawa procesów umysłowych, komunikacyjnych i językowych

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Filip A., Białek A., Białecka-Pikul M.
Roczniki Psychologiczne
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2017
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vol. 20
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issue 4
701-743
PL
Od kilkunastu lat na łamach zagranicznych czasopism toczy się debata wokół rekursywności ludzkich procesów umysłowych. Jej inicjator i główny propagator terminu „rekursja” (recursion) to Noam Chomsky. Ogranicza on jej występowanie do płaszczyzny ludzkiego języka i przypisuje cechę rekursywności (recursive property) składni tzw. języka umysłu. Wywołało to mocny sprzeciw badaczy upatrujących przejawów rekursji także na innych płaszczyznach ludzkiego funkcjonowania, jak komunikacja, teoria umysłu, składnia dopełnieniowa czy pragmatyka. Tekst przedstawia argumenty przemawiające za możliwością rozpatrywania rekursji jako mechanizmu wspólnego wszystkim wspomnianym płaszczyznom, pod warunkiem przyjęcia rozwojowej perspektywy, uwzględniającej dynamikę i sekwencyjność zachodzących w nich procesów i zmian.
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For nearly twenty years there has been an ongoing debate in international journals concerning the recursiveness of human mental processes. The main instigator of the debate and at the same time the main exponent of the term “recursion” is Noam Chomsky. According to him, recursion is an exclusive property of the syntax of the so-called “internal language of mind” (I-language). This conclusion has been contested by researchers claiming that recursion can also be observed in: communication, theory of mind, the syntax of complementation, or pragmatics. The article presents some arguments in favor of understanding recursion as a common ground of all the above phenomena as long as they are analyzed from a developmental perspective, with the dynamics and sequentiality of the constantly occurring processes and changes taken into account.
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