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achieved through vocal communication in an extremely broad range of behaviors and settings. The force of language is carried by the form, content, and delivery of a message. And the impact of this force may be created in the minds of an audience by the resonant invocation of past real experiences. Real pain and sorrow, real comfort and joy, real love and caring, are all part of our shared human experience. The impact of language may come by invoking resonant past experiences that can create a platonic mental moment that flickers with the shadows of those experiences. In order to understand how this process works, we need to study how brain mechanisms operate to translate the sounds of speech into the impact of language. References 1. Giles, H. (1973). Accent mobility: A model and some data. Anthropological Linguistics, 15, 87-105. 2. Lakin, J., & Chartrand, T.L. (2003). Using nonconscious behavioral mimicry to create affiliation and rapport. Psychological Science, 14, 334-339. 3. Foroni, F. & Semin, G. R. (2009). Language that puts you in touch with your bodily feelings. The multimodal responsiveness of affective expressions. Psychological Science, 20, 974-980. 4. Beilock, S. L., Lyons, I. M., Mattarella-Micke, A., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2008). Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 13269-13272. 5. Rizzolatti, G., & Arbib, M.A. (1999). Language within our grasp. Trends in Neurosciences, 21, 188-194. Page |73 6. Kinzler, K. D., Shutts, K., Dejesus, J., & Spelke, E. S. (2009). Accent trumps race in guiding children’s social preferences. Social Cognition, 27, 623-634. 7. Shintel, H., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2007). The sound of motion in spoken language: Visual information conveyed by acoustic properties of speech. Cognition, 105, 681-690. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021319