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 -