Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uf-csv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!uf-csv!mark From: mark@uf-csv.UUCP (mark fishman [fac]) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Kulawiec on Sargent on speaking in tongues Message-ID: <145@uf-csv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 22:46:30 EST Article-I.D.: uf-csv.145 Posted: Mon Dec 3 22:46:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 00:44:42 EST References: <231@pyuxd.UUCP> <1469@pucc-h>, <184@stat-l> <1489@pucc-h>, <191@stat-l> Organization: Univ of Fla, Computer and Information Science Lines: 23Just a few vagrant obiter dicta, from a former linguistics doctoral student (I've since reformed :-) ) The phenomenon of glossalalia has, indeed, been studied, phonologically and psycholinguistically, on several occasions. The result? The morphophonemics of glossalalic utterances are (surprise! surprise!) exactly those of the native language of the speaker. IIn short, an English speaker will produce phonetically and morphologically English nonsense, a French speaker nonsense assembled from French phonemes and morphemes, and so forth... Now, that's not to say that some deific agency doesn't inspire each separate glossalalic with his/her own "holy tongue," that just coincidentally resembles a nonsense brew of the language structures s/he already knows, but it sure do beggar Occam's razor... --------- "Why, so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call them?" --------- Mark Fishman/U.Fla./CIS Dept.