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The Ontogenesis of Action Syntax
Author(s) -
Laura Maffongelli,
Alessandro D’Ausilio,
Luciano Fadiga,
Moritz M. Daum
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
collabra. psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.444
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2474-7394
DOI - 10.1525/collabra.215
Subject(s) - syntax , action (physics) , cognitive science , computer science , analogy , human language , linguistics , psychology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Language and action share similar organizational principles. Both are thought to be hierarchical and recursive in nature. Here we address the relationship between language and action from developmental and neurophysiological perspectives. We discuss three major aspects: The extent of the analogy between language and action; the necessity to extend research on the yet largely neglected aspect of action syntax; the positive contribution of a developmental approach to this topic. We elaborate on the claim that adding an ontogenetic approach will help to obtain a comprehensive picture about both the interplay between language and action and its development, and to answer the question whether the underlying mechanisms of detecting syntactic violations of action sequences are similar to or different from the processing of language syntactic violations.

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