Allott, Robin (1995) MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO SYNTAX. [Book Chapter]
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Abstract
The semantic, syntactic and phonetic structures of language develop from a complex preexisting system, more specifically the preexisting motor system. Language thus emerged as an external physical expression of the neural basis for movement control. Features which made a wide range of skilled action possible - a set of elementary motor subprograms together with rules expressed in neural organization for combining subprograms into extended action sequences - were transferred to form a parallel set of programs and rules for speech and language. The already established integration of motor control with perceptual organization led directly to a systematic relation between language and the externally perceived world.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | motor control, motor theory, syntax, exaptation, action grammar, vision syntax, word categories, function words, word ordering |
| Subjects: | Biology > Behavioral Biology Linguistics > Syntax |
| ID Code: | 4972 |
| Deposited By: | Allott, R M |
| Deposited On: | 16 Jul 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2007 18:05 |
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