Becoming recursive: Toward a computational neuroscience account of recursion in language and thought

Recursion and Human Language

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 371-391

  Levy, Simon D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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