A SENSORIMOTOR CHARACTERISATION OF SYNTAX, AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MODELS OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION

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作者：
Knott, Alistair [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Otago, Dept Comp Sci, Dunedin, New Zealand
来源：
EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE, PROCEEDINGS | 2010年
关键词：
INTEGRATION; ATTENTION; CORTEX; GRASP;
D O I：
10.1142/9789814295222_0028
中图分类号：
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号：
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要：
In this paper I consider the possibility that language is more strongly grounded in sensorimotor cognition than is normally assumed-a scenario which would be providential for language evolution theorists. I argue that the syntactic theory most compatible with this scenario, perhaps surprisingly, is generative grammar. I suggest that there may be a way of interpreting the syntactic structures posited in one theory of generative grammar (Minimalism) as descriptions of sensorimotor processing, and discuss the implications of this for models of language evolution.
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