TY - JOUR

T1 - Grounding language performance in the anticipatory dynamics of the body

AU - Wallot, Sebastian

AU - van Orden, Guy

PY - 2011/7/1

Y1 - 2011/7/1

N2 - Speech acts, conversations, and other language activities emerge from anticipatory dynamics that situate minds and bodies near critical states. Critical states entail a kind of symmetry in which possible actions exist simultaneously as propensities to act. To speak or understand is to break the symmetry of these possibilities and realize the utterance that is expressed. This hypothesis is derived from complexity theory and agrees with findings that concern action generally and linguistic performance in particular.

AB - Speech acts, conversations, and other language activities emerge from anticipatory dynamics that situate minds and bodies near critical states. Critical states entail a kind of symmetry in which possible actions exist simultaneously as propensities to act. To speak or understand is to break the symmetry of these possibilities and realize the utterance that is expressed. This hypothesis is derived from complexity theory and agrees with findings that concern action generally and linguistic performance in particular.

KW - Psychology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959375952&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/10407413.2011.591262

DO - 10.1080/10407413.2011.591262

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:79959375952

VL - 23

SP - 157

EP - 184

JO - Ecological Psychology

JF - Ecological Psychology

SN - 1040-7413

IS - 3

ER -