試題詳解

35. Consider the sentences in the familiar story, “The House that Jack Built.”
This is the house that Jack built.
 This is the cheese that lay in the house that Jack built.
 This is the rat that ate the cheese that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the cat that killed the rat that ate the cheese that lay in the house that Jack built.
 What does this set of sentences reveal about the nature of human language?
(A) Recursion
(B) Topicalization
(C) Assimilation
(D) Complementary distribution