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perhaps “glossolalia” is the closest term for this?
I can see why you’d think of glossolalia, but it’s not the same thing, no. Glossolalia is coming up with wholly different new words that just pour out. This is more to do with existing words; I’m talking about a compulsion and an ecstatic delight in pronouncing certain words a certain way, deriving a great pleasure from certain phonemes in an ecstatic state. Some would call it erotophonia, I guess:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29012
But that reduces it to just a fetish, whereas the application is much greater than that, as any poet who’s derived great pleasure from putting words and sounds in a certain order knows. And, for that matter, I’m sure the person going into a fit of glossolalia also knows what it’s about; glossolalia involves the same parts of the brain and is clearly a related phenomenon.
I get it very, very intensely in certain mystical states and when stimulated by certain heavily dopaminergic medications. But it’s based on something that already exists in my brain. I cannot go into great detail, but certain parts of my brain, in this case the language parts, become more stimulated than they normally are. I would not be surprised if it were a dopamine-mediated phenomenon triggered in heavily linguistically oriented neuroatypical brains (is there a mystic out there who’s neurotypical?) I am sure that in a person whose brain was more musically or mathematically orientated, an ecstasy-triggered or dopaminergic-triggered state would produce compulsions to create music and complex mathematical spaces. And that a person who was linguistically underdeveloped would not feel this thing at all.
