Minimal Recursion: Exploring the Prospects
Minimal Recursion: Exploring the Prospects
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最小递归：探索前景
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-319-05086-7_1
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
14.9
通讯作者：
Noam Chomsky
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作者：
Noam Chomsky
人类语言最基本的属性是，在它的每一个变体中，它提供了一个无限的层次结构表达阵列，这些表达在两个接口上接受解释，外部化的感觉运动和心理过程的概念意图。因此，一个中心问题是确定具有这种性质的递归过程的性质。一般的科学规范将研究引向最简单的可能解决方案--最小递归--以深化解释力，加速语言习得的研究，并为最终深入了解语言能力的进化提供一些希望。对这一目标的追求导致了许多不必要的规定的消除，也奠定了普遍语法的一些基本属性。在其他后果中，它提供了证据，证明界面的不对称性，外部化是一个辅助过程，一个与语言的众所周知的属性和非常有限的进化证据相一致的结论。
The most basic property of human language is that in each of its variants, it provides an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions that receive interpretations at two interfaces, sensorymotor for externalization and conceptual-intentional for mental processes. A central problem, then, is to determine the nature of the recursive procedures that have this property. General scientific norms direct inquiry to the simplest possible solution – minimal recursion – to deepen explanatory power and expedite the study of language acquisition, and to offer some hope for some eventual insight into evolution of the language capacity. Pursuit of this objective has led to elimination of many unwanted stipulations and also grounding some fundamental properties of universal grammar. Among other consequences, it provides evidence for an asymmetry of the interfaces, with externalization an ancillary procedure, a conclusion consistent with well-known properties of language and the very limited evidence about evolution.