The language faculty that wasn't: a usage-based account of natural language recursion

@disconcision I've seen people make that argument for humans. Not the paper I was thinking of but e.g. https://t.co/tIF1kbgLXi

@haspelmath @davidadger @StefanoCoretta @AveryAndrews @ewandun @tallinzen @asayeed @bekkhylle @alexandersclark @spiantado @notnaughtknot @LanguageMIT @ev_fedorenko Look here, for example: https://t.co/BlaWHHbW7D

@mcmacdonald @lingdustin @wmatchin @glupyan @leraboroditsky @SimonKirby @markseidenberg @shirilevari @LanguageMIT @ejfranci2 A first step may be to note that our ability to process recursive structures doesn't require the existence of a recursive mechanism

RT @StefanoCoretta: "In short, the #brain is not shaped for #language; language is shaped by the brain" #evolution #usagebased https://t.co…