The syntax of human actions and interactions

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 500-514

  Guerra Filho, Gutemberg ^a   Aloimonos, Yiannis ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept grounding; Human Activity Language; Sensory motor linguistics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; COGNITION; ESSENTIAL ACTUATOR; GRAMMATICAL INFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN ACTIVITY LANGUAGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINETOLOGY; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SEQUENTIAL LEARNING; SYMBOLISM; SYNTAX;

EID: 84860920469     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: 18738052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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