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Book SynopsisSection I: Insights Into The Theory of Recursion.- How Minimalism Captures the Emergence of Categorical Recursion in Acquisition.- Recursion, Coordinate NPs, and the Acquisition Path.- Toward the Construction of a Formal Definition/Classification System for Recursion.- The Category Hybridization Hypothesis and Poss-ing Gerunds.- Recursion in Language and Beyond: A Biolinguistic Perspective.- Section II: Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Recursion.- The Grammar of ‘Unanalyzable’ Sentences in Early Child Language Production: Production Mismatches in the Development of Recursion in English.- The Cat’s (and) Dog’s Bear: Children’s Planning of Conjoined and Embedded Recursive Possessives.- Not Noticing the Evidence: How Big are Illusion Effects on Coordination, Adjunction and Embedding?.- The Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Restriction and adjectives in child Romanian.- Relative Gradable Adjective Recursion is More Challenging for Acquisition than Possessive Recursion in English.- Generic Possessives and the Acquisition of Recursive Possessives in English.- Tamil Children’s Comprehension of Recursive phrases: Evidence from Possessives, Locatives and Relativized Sentences.- Recursion and Verb stacking in Tamil and Their Acquisition.- Sound, Meaning and Recursion.- A Shared Developmental Path of Recursion: Evidence from DeP Recursion in Mandarin.- Recursion in Children’s Hungarian. The Acquisition of Complex PPs and Recursive Possessives.
