[The dialectic of glottogenesis--a contribution to the foundation of biolinguistics].
Some analogies were demonstrated between the spontaneous acquisition of phonemes, especially gutturals and clicks, and their also spontaneous extinction during the early babble phase of infants on the one hand and the appearance and involution of some blastemata throughout the human ontogenesis on the other hand. Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones. Thus the glottogenesis is a dialectic process consisting of interaction by formation, differentiation, and involution.
Scharf
J H
JH
Anatomie der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D013060:Speech; D014059:Tongue / Q000254:growth & development*
Zur Dialektik der Glottogenesis--Ein Beitrag zur Fundierung der Biolinguistik.