Recursion in phonology

Schreuder, Maartje; Gilbers, Dicky; Quené, Hugo

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2009.02.007

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“…Assuming a structure nesting like categories can account for the results from both the perception and production study while avoiding assuming a new category. For arguments for recursion, see for example Dresher (1994), Ladd (1986), Itô and Mester (1992, 2010), Kubozono (1992), Selkirk (1995), McCarthy and Prince (1993), Wagner (2010), and Schreuder, Gilbers and Quené (2009).…”

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Prosodic boundary strength: An articulatory and perceptual study

Krivokapic

Byrd

2012

Journal of Phonetics

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Prosodic boundary strength: An articulatory and perceptual study

Krivokapic

Byrd

2012

Journal of Phonetics

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“…Formally, structures that can be understood as recursive have been suggested to exist in visual art ( Eglash, 1997 ), visuo-spatial processing ( Martins, 2012 , Martins and Fitch, 2012 ), music ( Jackendoff and Lerdahl, 2006 , Lerdahl and Jackendoff, 1996 ), architecture ( Eglash, 1998 ), humour ( Eisenberg, 2008 ), theory of mind ( Miller, 2009 , Tomasello, 2008 ), problem solving ( Schiemenz, 2002 ), action sequencing ( Pulvermüller & Fadiga, 2010 ), syntax ( Chomsky, 1995 , Karlsson, 2010 , Mithun, 2010 , Roeper, 2009 ), phonology ( Hulst, 2010 , Hunyady, 2010 , Schreuder et al, 2009 , Wagner, 2010 ), pragmatics ( Levinson, 2013 ), conceptual structure ( Hofstadter, 2000 , Picard et al, 2010 ), mathematical proofs ( Odifreddi, 1999 ), natural numbers ( Hauser et al, 2002 ), and arithmetic operations ( Friederici, Bahlmann, Friedrich, & Makuuchi, 2011 ). In all these domains it is possible to build recursive algorithms that generate hierarchical structures.…”

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Cognitive representation of “musical fractals”: Processing hierarchy and recursion in the auditory domain

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The human ability to process hierarchical structures has been a longstanding research topic. However, the nature of the cognitive machinery underlying this faculty remains controversial. Recursion, the ability to embed structures within structures of the same kind, has been proposed as a key component of our ability to parse and generate complex hierarchies. Here, we investigated the cognitive representation of both recursive and iterative processes in the auditory domain. The experiment used a two-alternative forced-choice paradigm: participants were exposed to three-step processes in which pure-tone sequences were built either through recursive or iterative processes, and had to choose the correct completion. Foils were constructed according to generative processes that did not match the previous steps. Both musicians and non-musicians were able to represent recursion in the auditory domain, although musicians performed better. We also observed that general ‘musical’ aptitudes played a role in both recursion and iteration, although the influence of musical training was somehow independent from melodic memory. Moreover, unlike iteration, recursion in audition was well correlated with its non-auditory (recursive) analogues in the visual and action sequencing domains. These results suggest that the cognitive machinery involved in establishing recursive representations is domain-general, even though this machinery requires access to information resulting from domain-specific processes.

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“…Ladd, 1986 ; Selkirk, 2009 ; Wagner, 2010 ). Schreuder et al ( 2009 ) presented an experiment that revealed: edge-marking processes, such as early pitch accent placement (stress shift), are applied recursively to phonological phrases that are embedded in another phonological phrase. Recursive rules were found in phonotactic structures.…”

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Recursive Subsystems in Aphasia and Alzheimer's Disease: Case Studies in Syntax and Theory of Mind

2016

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The relationship between recursive sentence embedding and theory-of-mind (ToM) inference is investigated in three persons with Broca's aphasia, two persons with Wernicke's aphasia, and six persons with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). We asked questions of four types about photographs of various real-life situations. Type 4 questions asked participants about intentions, thoughts, or utterances of the characters in the pictures (“What may X be thinking/asking Y to do?”). The expected answers typically involved subordinate clauses introduced by conjunctions or direct quotations of the characters' utterances. Broca's aphasics did not produce answers with recursive sentence embedding. Rather, they projected themselves into the characters' mental states and gave direct answers in the first person singular, with relevant ToM content. We call such replies “situative statements.” Where the question concerned the mental state of the character but did not require an answer with sentence embedding (“What does X hate?”), aphasics gave descriptive answers rather than situative statements. Most replies given by persons with AD to Type 4 questions were grammatical instances of recursive sentence embedding. They also gave a few situative statements but the ToM content of these was irrelevant. In more than one third of their well-formed sentence embeddings, too, they conveyed irrelevant ToM contents. Persons with moderate AD were unable to pass secondary false belief tests. The results reveal double dissociation: Broca's aphasics are unable to access recursive sentence embedding but they can make appropriate ToM inferences; moderate AD persons make the wrong ToM inferences but they are able to access recursive sentence embedding. The double dissociation may be relevant for the nature of the relationship between the two recursive capacities. Broca's aphasics compensated for the lack of recursive sentence embedding by recursive ToM reasoning represented in very simple syntactic forms: they used one recursive subsystem to stand in for another recursive subsystem.

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Recursion in phonology

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Prosodic boundary strength: An articulatory and perceptual study

Prosodic boundary strength: An articulatory and perceptual study

Cognitive representation of “musical fractals”: Processing hierarchy and recursion in the auditory domain

Recursive Subsystems in Aphasia and Alzheimer's Disease: Case Studies in Syntax and Theory of Mind

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