This website reports on an investigation of the integration of skilled action with perception with an inner language. It is hypothesized that this inner language is likely there for all vertebrates and that it likely provides the infrastructure that then supports the evolution of an outer language for cross-individual communication.
This investigation is part of a project investigating human language comprehension. In short, language comprehension is seen as a skill that is based on yet other skills that in turn have evolved biologically, socially, and individually.
The site tends to be in a bit of a mess, as I keep changing it as I am working on the ideas. I should take the time to clean it all up, but somehow it rarely happens. If you are interested in the subject, and have comments or questions, please contact me via email: drrainer@rogers.com
This work is dedicated to my many mentors including Ernie Lindner in Saskatoon, Reginald Robson at UBC, Arthur Burks and my thesis committee at Michigan.
Rainer von Königslöw, Toronto, 2009
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