Recursion: Structural Complexity in Language and Cognition

众所周知，语言是人类心灵的一扇窗户，不仅因为我们的文字揭示了我们的思想，而且因为我们将文字组合在一起的方式反映了允许创造力蓬勃发展的组织原则。最近基于数学的语言理论研究已经确定了计算原则，这些原则有望为我们的神经硬件提供软件。 这个研讨会将汇集语言学家，生物学家，心理学家，哲学家和计算机科学家，他们正在发现这些语言学原则如何为语言学习和一般学习提供抽象基础。 这项事业的核心是一个简单的概念，递归，通过重复应用简单规则来构建复杂结构的想法，这可能为所有人类行为的组织提供了一个隐喻。这个研讨会是及时的，因为对语言和认知中复杂结构的研究现在已经达到了一个点，在这个点上，各种类型的复杂性可以开始被定义为足够精确的，以巩固结果，并发现来源和限制of complex复杂human人类cognition认知. 通过识别复杂结构的方式和复杂性可以从简单规则的应用中产生，这项研究为最佳学习课程设计的新方法，人工智能的新视角以及区分动物认知和人类认知能力的进化变化奠定了基础。

Workshop on RecursionIt is well-known that language is an window into the human mind, notjust because our words reveal our thoughts, but because the way we putwords together reflects principles of organization that allowcreativity to flourish. Recent mathematically based research inlinguistic theory has identified computational principles that promiseto provide the software behind our neurological hardware. Thisworkshop will bring together linguists, biologists, psychologists,philosophers and computer scientists who are discovering how theselinguistic principles provide the abstract basis for language learningand learning in general. Central to this enterprise is a simpleconcept, recursion, the idea of building complex structures throughrepeated application of simple rules, which may provide a metaphor forthe organization of all human action.This workshop is timely because research on complex structures inlanguage and cognition is now reaching a point where the various typesof complexity can begin to be defined with sufficient precision toconsolidate results and discover the sources and limits of complexhuman cognition. By identifying the ways in with complex structuresand complex can arise from the application of simple rules, thisresearch lays the foundation for new ways of designing curriculum foroptimal learning, new perspectives on artificial intelligence and newinsight into the evolutionary changes that distinguish animalcognition from human cognitive abilities.