The Physical Foundation of Language: Exploration of a Hypothesis

The manner in which words can properly be formed into sentences (the problem of generative grammar essentially), the problems involved in the meaning of groups of words (semantics), the classification of words into functional categories and hierarchies (the traditional problems of grammar), the identification and comparison of the underlying structures of languages (comparative linguistics in a broad sense) are not matters directly tackled in this study which is concerned with individual words as meaningful sounds, the foundation on which they are constructed. Foundation is used in a literal sense. What the study looks for is the way meaning is injected into, forms a word - to find out how fitness to represent the external world (or our own psychological structure and states) emerges from a combination of vibrations in the air or in the mechanism of the ear or from the related pattern of the brain.