glossogenetic

English

Adjective

glossogenetic (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to the emergence of linguistic forms over time.
   • 1998, Simon Kirby, “Fitness and the selective adaptation of language”, in Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases‎^[1], →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, Janet Wiles, “Methodological Issues in Simulating the Emergence of Language,”, in The Transition to Language‎^[2], Alison Wray, →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^[3], →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.

Related terms

• glossogenesis
• glottogenetic