Syntactic Structures as Descriptions of Sensorimotor Processes

Syntactic Structures as Descriptions of Sensorimotor Processes

In this paper I propose a hypothesis linking elements of a model of theoretical syntax with neural mechanisms in the domain of sensorimotor processing. The syntactic framework I adopt to express this linking hypothesis is Chomsky’s Minimalism: I propose that the language-independent ’Logical Form’ (...

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Main Author: Alistair Knott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2014-02-01
Series:Biolinguistics
Subjects:
embodied cognition
generative syntax
neural models of language
reaching-to-grasp
sensorimotor processing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.8991

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https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.8991

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