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recursionIn programming, the ability of a subroutine or program module to call itself. It is helpful for writing routines that solve problems by repeatedly processing the output of the same process. See recurse subdirectories.
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Researchers reported that starlings managed to learn to recognize a grammatical pattern called recursion, once claimed as unique to human language (169: 261). In contrast to the themes of temporality and recursion in Rehearsal I, Alys's exhibition in Wolfsburg, essentially a midcareer survey, had a distinctly spatial emphasis. This kind of recursion is of course exactly what Bakhtin means by dialogism when he notes that the "speech of such narrators is always another's speech . |
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