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Introduction: a map of the theoretical and empirical issues / Luis Amaral, Marcus Maia, Andrew Nevins and Tom Roeper. Speech Reports, Theory of Mind and Evidentials. False Speech Reports in Pirahã: A Comprehension Experiment / Uli Sauerland -- Indirect Recursion: The Importance of Second-order Embedding and its Implications for Cross-linguistic Research / Bart Hollebrandse -- Recursion in language and the development of higher order cognitive functions: an investigation with children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese / Letícia M. S. Corrêa, Marina R. A. Augusto, Mercedes Marcilese and Clara Villarinho -- Embedding as a building block of evidential categories in Kotiria / Kristine Stenzel -- Embedded imperatives in Mbyá / Guillaume Thomas. Recursion Along the Clausal Spine. Word order in control: evidence for self-embedding in Pirahã / Cilene Rodrigues, Raiane Salles and Filomena Sandalo -- Switch-reference is licensed by both kinds of coordination: novel Kisêdjê Data / Rafael Nonato -- Clausal recursion, predicate raising and head-finality in Tenetehára / Fábio Bonfim Duarte -- Recursion in Tupi-Guarani languages: the cases of Tupinambá and Guarani / Marcia Maria Damaso Vieira. Recursive Possession and Relative Clauses. Recursive Possessives in Child Japanese / Akikio Terunuma and Terue Nakato -- Recursion of possessives and locative phrases in Kawaiwete / Suzi Lima and Pikuruk Kaiabi -- Relative clauses in Wapichana and the interpretation of multiple embedded "uraz" constructions / Luiz Amaral and Wendy Leandro -- Multiple embedding of relative clauses in Karitiana / Luciana Storto, Karin Vivanco and Ivan Rocha. Recursion in the PP domain. Recursion in the acquisition path for hierarchical syntactic structure / Tom Roeper and Yohei Oseki -- Self-embedded recursive postpositional phrases in Pirahã: A Pilot Study / Filomena Sandalo, Cilene Rodrigues, Tom Roeper, Luiz Amaral, Marcus Maia and Glauber Romling da Silva -- Strong continuity and children's development of DP r