Language as an Emergent Function: Some Radical Neurological and Evolutionary Implications

Abstract

Language is a spontaneously evolved emergent adaptation, not a formal computational system. Its structure does not derive from either innate or social instruction but rather self-organization and selection. Its quasi-universal features emerge from the interactions among semiotic constraints, neural processing limitations, and social transmission dynamics.

Keywords

• coevolution, emergence, self-organization, semiotics, differentiation, neural development.