TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints4972
UR  - http://cogprints.org/4972/
A1  - Allott, Robin
Y1  - 1995///
N2  - 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.
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
KW  - motor control
KW  -  motor theory
KW  -  syntax
KW  -  exaptation
KW  -  action grammar
KW  -  vision syntax
KW  -  word categories
KW  -  function words
KW  -  word ordering
TI  - MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO SYNTAX
SP  - 307
AV  - public
EP  - 329
ER  -

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