An Experimental Research on Children's Recursive Abilities

<正>Recursion,firstly originating from mathematics and computer science,is later broadly discussed in the linguistic field.Recursion is defined as the process of embedding a constituent inside another constituent of the same kind(Fitch,2010;Pinker and Jankendoff,2005;van der Hulst,2010).It is claimed to be an important step in the evolution of human language and it is regarded as an essential ability and technique which endows