Susana Béjar (faculty), Diane Massam (faculty), Ana-Teresa Pérez-Leroux (faculty), and Yves Roberge (faculty) have a chapter, "Rethinking complexity" in an edited volume, Syntactic architecture and its consequences I, edited by András Bárány, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas, and Sten Vikner.
This paper addresses the nature of complexity of recursion. We consider four asymmetries involving caps on recursion observed in previous experimental acquisition studies, which argue that complexity cannot be characterized exclusively in terms of the number of iterations of Merge. While recursion is essentially syntactic and allowed for by the minimalist toolkit via Merge, selection, and labeling or projection, the complexity of recursive outputs arises at the interface.
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