Discussion Details
| Title: | Problems with Recent Proposals on Recursion & FLN |
| Submitter: | Oren Sadeh Leicht |
| Description: | I think saying that the claim of recursion being a single essential trait
of human language has no content confuses a few points. Human language, under Chomsky's view (and I guess Hauser and Fitch, too), is regarded as a mental state, part of the human mind, or I-language. Recursion is a property of human minds, not necessarily found in (E-)languages. Thus it is perfectly logical to assert that a language may lack recursion. It may still be learned (perhaps badly) by recursion which is in the mind of humans beings, but not in the langauge itself. |
| Date Posted: | 02-May-2006 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | Philosophy of Language |
| LL Issue: | 17.1352 |
| Posted: | 02-May-2006 |
