Word Phonology is recursive

Pinker and Jackendoff (2005: 10): “…(As mentioned, HCF use “recursion ” in the loose sense of concatenation within hierarchically embedded structures). Recursion consists of embedding a constituent in a constituent of the same type, for example a relative clause inside a relative clause (….). This does not exist in phonological structure: a syllable, for instance, cannot be embedded in another syllable.” Neeleman and van der Koot (2006: 1524):..”syntax has recursive structures, whereas phonology does not.” It is rather commonly stated that the formal organization of phonology is fundamentally different from that of syntax. Such claims regard either derivational aspects (Halle and Bromberger 1989) or representational aspects. In the latter domain, as illustrated by the two quotes, it is common to assert that phonological structure is non-recursive. Neeleman and van der Koot reject the idea that phonological organization appeals to any notion of constituency, whereas others, while acknowledging that phonotactic structure is constituency-based, propose that this constituency is ‘strictly layered ’ which means that no constituent contains a constituent of the same type. With reference to prosodic structure above the word recursion has been identified in works such as Ladd (1996 [2008]), Wagner (2005), Hunyadi (to appear) and others. I