glossogenetic

English

Adjective

glossogenetic (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to the emergence of linguistic forms over time.
    • 1998, Simon Kirby, Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases , "Fitness and the selective adaptation of language," →ISBN, page 380:
      In other words, the Subjacency Condition may be an innate 'fossil' of a glossogenetic adaptation to avoid long-distance dependencies.
    • 2002, Bradley Tonkes and Janet Wiles, "Methodological Issues in Simulating the Emergence of Language," in The Transition to Language , Alison Wray ed., →ISBN, page 241:
      Kirby explicitly sought to simulate language emergence in the absence of selection pressure to explore the power of glossogenetic adaptation alone.
    • 2007, Alexander Mehler, "Stratified Constraint Satisfaction Networks in Synergetic Multi-Agent Simulations of Language Evolution," in Artificial Cognition Systems , →ISBN, page 153:
      To put it in other words: An approach to organizational, glossogenetic learning of linguistic structures is needed in addition to a model of ontogenetic learning of a single system as outlined above.
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