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Abstract

Recursion is considered to be one of the hallmarks of human communication. Many theories have been proposed on how this important feature might once have originated. This paper critically examines previously proposed models and posits a new and clearly defined hypothesis: recursion might originate from language users who try to reuse as much of their previously gained linguistic knowledge as possible. We support this claim by providing results of a multi-agent computer simulation in which the agents invent their own communication system encompassing a recursive syntactic category system.

@incollection{bleys08evolang7th,
  author={Joris Bleys},
  title={Expressing Second Order Semantics and the Emergence of Recursion},
  year={2008},
  month={March},
  pages={34-41},
  editor={A. D. M. Smith and K. Smith and R. Ferrer-i-Cancho},
  publisher={World Scientific},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/bleys08evolang7th.html}
}

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