[extropy-chat] IQ/LANGUAGE: recursion

[Damien Broderick]

> It looks like the ability to handle recursion in language
> (or perhaps the ability to hold onto multiple states
> simultaneously?) may be a key feature in preventing lower
> animals from developing sophisticated languages.

Sounds like Chomskyan embedding, which has been a key feature of generative
grammar since the '60s.

Damien Broderick