?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+motor+theory+of+language&rft.creator=Allott%2C+Robin&rft.subject=Historical+Linguistics&rft.subject=Evolution&rft.subject=Behavioral+Neuroscience&rft.description=++This+paper+amplifies+and+at+certain+points+extends+the+account+of+the+motor+%0A++theory+given+previously.+The+semantic%2C+syntactic+and+phonetic+structures+of+%0A++language+developed+on+the+basis+of+a+complex+pre-existing+system.+More+%0A++specifically%2C+the+structures+of+language+were+a+transfer+from+or+a+calque+of+%0A++the+structures+of+the+pre-existing+motor+system.+The+motor+system+had+%0A++developed+in+terms+of+neural+motor+programs+controlling+the+different+%0A++categories+of+movement.+The+motor+programs+were+formed+from+a+limited+set+of+%0A++basic+subroutines+which+in+combination+could+be+used+to+produce+an+open-ended+%0A++and+essentially+infinite+range+of+actions.+The+development+of+language+made+%0A++use+of+these+pre-existing+subroutines+into+extended+programs.+By+way+of+the+%0A++motor+patterning+imposed+on+the+anatomical+features+which+went+to+form+the+%0A++articulatory+system%2C+language+emerged+as+an+external+physical+expression+of+%0A++the+physiological+and+neurological+basis+for+movement+control.+Movement+%0A++control+was+already+necessarily+closely+integrated+with+the+parallel+system+%0A++for+the+processing+and+control+of+perception.+Language+thus+acquired+the+%0A++ability+to+express+the+range+and+inter-relations+of+perceptual+content.&rft.publisher=John+Benjamins&rft.contributor=von+Raffler-Engel%2C+Walburga&rft.contributor=Wind%2C+Jan&rft.contributor=Jonker%2C+Abraham&rft.date=1991&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3269%2F1%2Fmotor-ii.htm&rft.identifier=++Allott%2C+Robin++(1991)+The+motor+theory+of+language.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3269%2F