"4972","MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO SYNTAX","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.","http://cogprints.org/4972/","Allott, Robin","Landsberg, Marge E."," Allott, Robin (1995) MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO SYNTAX. [Book Chapter] ","","1995"