title: MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO SYNTAX
creator: Allott, Robin
subject: Behavioral Biology
subject: Syntax
description: 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.
publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
contributor: Landsberg, Marge E.
date: 1995
type: Book Chapter
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4972/1/syntax.htm
identifier:   Allott, Robin  (1995) MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO SYNTAX.  [Book Chapter]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/4972/