Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesOf or pertaining to the emergence of linguistic forms over time.
In other words, the Subjacency Condition may be an innate 'fossil' of a glossogenetic adaptation to avoid long-distance dependencies.
1998, Simon Kirby, “Fitness and the selective adaptation of language”, in Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases, →ISBN, page 3802 more examples
Kirby explicitly sought to simulate language emergence in the absence of selection pressure to explore the power of glossogenetic adaptation alone.
2002, Bradley Tonkes, Janet Wiles, “Methodological Issues in Simulating the Emergence of Language,”, in The Transition to Language, Alison Wray, →ISBN, page 241To 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.
2007, Alexander Mehler, “Stratified Constraint Satisfaction Networks in Synergetic Multi-Agent Simulations of Language Evolution,”, in Artificial Cognition Systems, →ISBN, page 153
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