The Biolinguistic Instantiation: Form to Meaning in Brain/Syllable Interactions

Abstract

We propose, in this chapter, a language model anchored in the relation between immanence and manifestation based on points of view. Within this realm, the biolinguistic instantiation implies both biosemiotic Interpretability and evolutionary symbolism. Furthermore, being one of the five points of views (representation, analysis, catalysis, instantiation, and formantization), it is the principled topology of the thematic/schematic relation between structure and world. We exemplify in this case, the empirical background of syllables and consonant clusters (phonesthemes). From our findings, we seek hypothetically to investigate the instantiation of dual stream dynamics (dorsal/ventral) as the projection (internal structure) of symbolic rules we have observed on the external structure: mirror/ deletion and buckling models of onset/codas, on the one hand, and agentive features such as [+/ (cid:1) source], on the other hand; these rules are supposed to form lexicon ’ s storage and computation. Our heuristic basis will be the relevance of the mirror neuron system for both dual stream model (HicKok/Poeppel) and frame/ content theory (McNeilage). Emphasis will be put on universal/typological implications of instantiation in Berber and English.