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"The recursive property briefly outlined earlier ...  may be a distinct human property". Chomsky's notion that the recursive potential of human language is an evolutionary breakthrough in communication was under attack in the recent Barcelona conference, according to this post in Babel's Dawn, "Recursion can be a 'side effect'": A few hours after Derek Bickerton argued that recursive processes are not needed to generate sentences, Joris Bleys argued in a workshop that even if they are needed they require no special evolutionary jumps to appear. Recursion (the transformation of preliminary phrases into final sentences by embedding some preliminary phrases into others) can simp... Enlace permanente.