<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Motor theory of language origin: The diversity of languages"^^ . "The motor theory proposes that the complex semantic, syntactic and phonetic \nstructures of language developed from a pre-existing complex system, more \nspecifically the pre-existing motor system. Language thus emerged as an external \nphysical expression of the neural basis for movement control. Features which \nmade a wide range of skilled actions possible -- a set of elementary motor \nsubprograms together with rules, expressed in neural organisation, for combining \nsubprograms into extended action-sequences -- were transferred to form a \nparallel set of programs and rules for speech and language. The already \nestablished integration of motor control with perceptual organisation led \ndirectly to a systematic relation between language and the externally-perceived \nworld. But if language originated in the establishment of new brain connections \nbetween the organisation of motor control and perception on the one hand and the \nneural and physiological systems involved in language on the other, how is it \nthat as far back as can be traced there has been a multiplicity of different \nlanguages, with different phonological systems, different lexicons and different \ngrammatical (syntactic and morphological) structures? Because of these \ndifferences, de Saussure, Bloomfield and most linguists have concluded, or \nassumed, that languages must be arbitary constructs, certainly as regards their \nlexicons, and that there can be no direct relation between the sound-structures \nof languages and the external world. The paper examines ways in which a \nreconciliation can be made between the hypothesis of a biological (physiological \nand neurological) process of language evolution and the observed diversity of \nlanguages. "^^ . "1994" . . . "John Benjamins"^^ . . . "Studies in Language Origins Volume 3"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Leonard"^^ . "Rolfe"^^ . "Leonard Rolfe"^^ . . "Jan"^^ . "Wind"^^ . "Jan Wind"^^ . . "Abraham"^^ . "Jonker"^^ . "Abraham Jonker"^^ . . "Robin"^^ . "Allott"^^ . "Robin Allott"^^ . . "Robin Michael"^^ . "Allott"^^ . "Robin Michael Allott"^^ . . . . . . "Motor theory of language origin: The diversity of languages (HTML)"^^ . . . "diversty.htm"^^ . . . "Motor theory of language origin: The diversity of languages (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #3286 \n\nMotor theory of language origin: The diversity of languages\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Evolution" . . . "Comparative Linguistics" . . . "Behavioral Neuroscience" . .