Why Chomsky considers language recursion to be narrow ability unique to humans?

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1 points | by squircle 8 hours ago ago

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  • 082349872349872 7 hours ago ago

    An answer to (3): IMX, humans have a "stack"; we can understand deeply embedded sentences of the form "what did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?", in contrast to the avians and mammals of my acquaintance, who seem to have a flat representation for utterances.