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[Daniel L. Everett]

There will be computer scientists, linguists, psychologists,  
biologists, and anthropologists at the conference.

A number of twists in the typology, definition, etc.

The conference website is at the bottom of this message.

Dan

On Apr 25, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Sherman Wilcox wrote:

> I'm with Mike on this one. I can't make the conference, but here's  
> my vote for a definition of recursion (from a computer scientist):
>
> “Recursive structures are built of components that are structurally  
> identical to themselves” (Gelernter 1998: 59).
> Gelernter, D. (1998). Machine beauty: Elegance and the heart of  
> technology. NY: Basic Books.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Sherman Wilcox
> Department of Linguistics
> University of New Mexico
>
>

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