A hierarchical view of the central nervous system suggests the principle that " lower level " activities are often recruited for utilization by subsequently evolved functions. In this view, speech, as distinguished from language, is a more automatic process in part responsive to perceptual input. It both shapes and is shaped by those aspects of language it serves.
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