Recursion is the key capability identified in a new theory of linguistic competence. In Noam Chomsky’s early theories of language in humans, he cited many common attributes that account for the similarities in human languages. In a 2002 paper by Marc Hauser, Noam Chomsky, and Tecumseh Fitch, the authors cite the single attribution of “recursion” as accounting for the unique language faculty of the human species.113 Recursion is the ability to put together small parts into a larger chunk, and then use that chunk as a part in yet another structure and to continue this process iteratively. In
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