MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO SYNTAXAllott, Robin (1995) MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO SYNTAX. [Book Chapter] Full text available as:
AbstractThe 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.
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