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Word Order, Action, and the Brain: A Reply to Arbib

Author(s) -

Kemmerer David

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

language and linguistics compass

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 44

ISSN - 1749-818X

DOI - 10.1111/lnc3.12132

Subject(s) - object (grammar) , verb , word order , action (physics) , subject (documents) , linguistics , representation (politics) , context (archaeology) , word (group theory) , psychology , order (exchange) , computer science , cognitive science , philosophy , history , political science , library science , law , finance , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , politics , economics

In a recent paper in this journal, I argued that the crosslinguistic prevalence of subject–object–verb and subject–verb–object word orders reflects the sequential and hierarchical representation of action in Broca's area. Arbib (2015) discusses that paper in the context of broader computational, neuroscientific, and evolutionary issues, and presents a critique of my specific proposal. Here, I respond to his concerns and defend my original account.

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