| Abstract | Understanding the organizational style of motor systems is largely a matter of understanding the means by which very many degrees of freedom are systematically regulated to yield behaviors, appropriate to the circumstances, of very few degrees of freedom. The tendency for movements to be fashioned in a way in which most variables are held constant provides in motoric restriction on the formational aspects of spoken and signed language. There are reasons for supposing that a formal theory of language and a formal theory of the coordination and control of movement would be qualitatively indistinguishable. The form of both movement and language may rest with common physical principles. The machine conception and dynamics are contrasted as perspectives on the form manifest by biological systems and expression is given to the need for examining contemporary physical theory as a source for understanding the formational aspects of movement and language. |
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