Friedemann Pulvermüller and Luciano Fadiga have written Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language (Nature Reviews Neuroscience 11, 351-360 (May 2010)).
The title is clear. Digging further, I find another article by Friedemann Pulvermüller, Brain-Language Research: Where is the Progress? (BIOLINGUISTICS, Vol 4, No 2 (2010)), with the following quotes.
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In one study, the semantic somatotopy could even be documented in abstract idiom processing (‘grasp the idea’, ‘kick the habit’; cf. Boulenger et al. 2009) consistent with an embodied, partly compositional view on abstract sentence meaning construction, to which lexical meaning contributes (Lakoff 1987, Barsalou 1999).
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Gating experiments for example indicate that several competing hypotheses about possibly upcoming words are built, maintained and tested in parallel until one of them ‘wins’, a position immanent to models in the tradition of the cohort theory (Marslen-Wilson 1987, Gaskell & Marslen-Wilson 2002).
The first quote validates the physical grounding of metaphors, the second one sounds very much like the operation of a stochastic grammar.
Bertrand du Castel
The title is clear. Digging further, I find another article by Friedemann Pulvermüller, Brain-Language Research: Where is the Progress? (BIOLINGUISTICS, Vol 4, No 2 (2010)), with the following quotes.
Page 259:
In one study, the semantic somatotopy could even be documented in abstract idiom processing (‘grasp the idea’, ‘kick the habit’; cf. Boulenger et al. 2009) consistent with an embodied, partly compositional view on abstract sentence meaning construction, to which lexical meaning contributes (Lakoff 1987, Barsalou 1999).
Page 268:
Gating experiments for example indicate that several competing hypotheses about possibly upcoming words are built, maintained and tested in parallel until one of them ‘wins’, a position immanent to models in the tradition of the cohort theory (Marslen-Wilson 1987, Gaskell & Marslen-Wilson 2002).
The first quote validates the physical grounding of metaphors, the second one sounds very much like the operation of a stochastic grammar.
Bertrand du Castel
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