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Recursion and Human Thought… starts out talking about a language from the Amazon Basin that has no recursion in it, what that looks like, and what it may mean.
My favorite quote: "…we held an international conference on recursion in human language, which was the first conference of its kind ever held, and we had researchers from all around the world come and talk about recursion. One interesting thing that emerged from this is that the linguists, mathematicians and computer scientists disagree… |
Edge: RECURSION AND HUMAN THOUGHT By Daniel L. Everett
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Relentless Inquiry 
If you want to look more deeply at this, Language Log has been following the story: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3857