One theory explains the metered vocalization as symptomatic of a rhythmical discharge of subcortical strucutres operating during a trance state. If speech is biologically interrupted, it could appear to be a sentence pause. If, on the other hand, a study of glossolalia should support the hypothesis that there is no lexicon among its practitioners, a larger assumption could be made that sentences are inconceivable without words. The evidence is mixed. Unfortunately, we are never told what this word means, if indeed it means anything at all.
Meanings are another story.
The strongest correlation between glossolalia and language comes from an analysis of phonemes. As mentioned previously, it is statistically probably that glossolalists will reiterate familiar consonant, vowel, or diphthong sounds simly because the vocal tract can only produce a finite base of phonemes. If, however, the tongues of angels is a language unique and apart from all the other known languages in the world, then one would expect glossolalists to reproduce significantly fewer phonemes from his or her native language. On the basis of his phonetic analysis, he concluded that glossolalia is language-like. Ultimately, however, he could not concede that glossolalia is a language.