Department of Linguistics, UCL, London WC1N 1PF, UK.
Behav Brain Sci. 2023 Feb 17;46:e6. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22000802.
While the metarepresentational structure of ostensive communication may explain the unleashing of human expression, it neither explains the open-endedness of the thoughts expressed/communicated, nor how the multiply embedded nature of the metarepresentational structure invoked arose. These both require the recursivity of human language, a capacity which must be distinguished from external (public) languages and their use in communication.
虽然明示交际的元表象结构可以解释人类表达的释放，但它既不能解释所表达/交流的思想的开放性，也不能解释元表象结构所调用的多重嵌套性质是如何产生的。这两者都需要人类语言的递归性，这种能力必须与外部（公共）语言及其在交际中的使用区分开来。
