The recursion example in the article is not good because it is language dependent. One could also say: "running mouse chased by cat in the past" and you would g

The recursion example in the article is not good because it is language dependent. One could also say: "running mouse chased by cat in the past" and you would get the same idea as in opposed to "The mouse the cat chased ran". I believe other non-indoeuropean languages like Chinese or Japanese work in some ways much different from ours where you would pretty much derive to similar sentences if you translate without considering grammatical rules (not to say that they dont use recursion). Also one has to make a distinction from recursion and recursion in language as opposed to "if you cant recurse in communication you cant recurse in general".