Linguistic embodiment and verbal constraints: human cognition and the scales of time.
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2014 Stephen J Cowley 51 citations
Language is symbiotic: its dynamics between agent and environment arise as linguistic embodiment is managed under verbal constraints, granting humans a unique form of phenomenal experience through co-action. Evidence from 750 ms of mother-daughter talk shows how parties attune using a dynamic field to co-embody speech with experience of wordings, which emerge in making and tracking phonetic gestures that mesh artifice, cultural products, and impersonal experience. Rather than processing verbal content in brains, linguistic symbiosis grants access to diachronic resources, redefining language as "activity in which wordings play a part."