15.327, Qs: Recursion Reference; Concord Morphology

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-15-327. Thu Jan 29 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 15.327, Qs: Recursion Reference; Concord Morphology

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1)
Date:  Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:55:31 -0500 (EST)
From:  Mark Seidenberg <msseidenberg at wisc.edu>
Subject:  Recursion in Scientific American

2)
Date:  Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:03:00 -0500 (EST)
From:  Lydia Blenn <blenn at ling.uni-potsdam.de>
Subject:  concord morphology

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:55:31 -0500 (EST)
From:  Mark Seidenberg <msseidenberg at wisc.edu>
Subject:  Recursion in Scientific American

I am looking for a 1980s era article in Scientific American about
recursion. The column was a collection of amusing examples of
recursive structures (in sentences and in real life). I have not been
able to find it by any of the usual means.  Does anyone remember
this/know the reference/use it in teaching?  It was in one of the
columns that ran after Martin Gardner retired from doing his
Mathematical Games column.

thanks.

Mark Seidenberg


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Date:  Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:03:00 -0500 (EST)
From:  Lydia Blenn <blenn at ling.uni-potsdam.de>
Subject:  concord morphology

For research about infants' sensitivity to and their use of concord
morphology (here: the same morphological marking of each element
belonging to a syntactic phrase,in my case a noun phrase, e.g. lOS
muchachOS ricOS) I'm looking for languages that make use of this
feature. So far I only know of few of them: Spanish, Swahili, German,
Latin. Do you know others?

Thanks in advance?

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