The syntactic motor system

Gesture

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 7-37

  Roy, Alice C ^a   Arbib, Michael A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b Università di Ferrara ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Articulatory control; Imitation; Language evolution; Mirror system; Motor control; Protosign; Protospeech; Symbolization; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747414515     PISSN: 15681475     EISSN: 15699773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/gest.5.1-2.03roy     Document Type: Article

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