Learning Parallel Grammar Systems for a Human Activity Language

We have empirically discovered that the space of human actions has a linguistic structure. This is a sensory-motor space consisting of the evolution of the joint angles of the human body in movement. The space of human activity has its own phonemes, morphemes, and sentences. In kinetology, the phonology of human movement, we define atomic segments (kinetemes) that are used to compose human activity. In this paper, we present a morphological representation that explicitly contains the subset of actuators responsible for the activity, the synchronization rules modeling coordination among these actuators, and the motion pattern performed by each participating actuator. We model a human action with a novel formal grammar system, named Parallel Synchronous Grammar System (PSGS), adapted from Parallel Communicatin