Whether recursion is universal, for example, is contested.

例如，递归是否普遍存在争议。

Similar tribal cultures have languages bristling with recursion.

类似的种族文化里存在着充满了递归式的语言。

Mr Chomsky has argued that “recursion” is the key feature of all human language.

乔姆斯基已经证明“递归”是所有人类语言的关键特征。

What would prehistoric hunter-gatherers need all these tenses, and clauses, and recursions for?

史前狩猎采集者需要所有这些时态、从句和递归来做什么？

This is called the " base case" of the recursion.

这称为递归的“基本情况” 。

And in fact, the lack of recursion is not controversial.

事实上，缺乏递归是没有争议的。

Recursion is when you have a set of instructions that refers back to itself.

称为递归。 递归是当你有一组指令返回自身时。

The author Cal Newport calls this “research recursion syndrome” – you get stuck in a loop of constantly looking for yet another source.

作者卡尔·纽波特称之为“研究递归综合症”——你陷入了一个不断寻找另一个来源的循环。

This is the embedding of smaller units inside bigger ones: a subordinate clause is a kind of recursion, embedding a sentence in a bigger one.

一个从句是一种递归，把一个句子嵌入更大的句子中。

In the early 2000s, Chomsky suggested that there's just one shared principle, called recursion, which means structures can be nested inside each other.

在 2000 年代初期，乔姆斯基提出只有一个共同原则，称为递归，这意味着结构可以相互嵌套。

Even the lack of grammatical recursion in Pirah? , Mr Everett's key piece of evidence that it is culture that creates language, cannot tell the whole tale.

即使是缺乏语法递归的皮尔哈，埃弗里特证据的关键点仍然是文化创造了语言，但这不能断定整个叙述。

Mr Everett says that the Piraha lack grammatical recursion, and that even if recursion is universal (Piraha use it in stories if not within sentences), this does not prove the existence of the language organ.

埃弗里特说皮尔哈缺乏符合语法规则的递归，即使递归是普遍存在的（皮尔哈人把它用在没有长句子的故事中），也不能证明语言器官的存在。

You might not remember your dreams, but if you're interested in a lively story that will take you all over the place and surprise you at e very turn, I just finished Blake Crouch's Recursion on Audible.

你可能记不住自己的梦，但如果你对生动的故事感兴趣，而这个故事会把你带到各个地方，让你在每次转机之际都感到惊喜的话，我推荐一本书，是我刚看完的布莱克·克劳奇的《听觉递归》。

Recursion was a good candidate for a universal grammar rule because it can take many forms. However, in 2005 linguists published findings on an Amazonian language called Piraha, which doesn't appear to have any recursive structures.

递归是通用语法规则的一个很好的候选者， 因为它可以采用多种形式。然而，2005 年语言学家发表了关于一种名为 Piraha 的亚马逊语言的研究结果， 该语言似乎没有任何递归结构。