Biología y lenguaje : pasado, presente y futuro de una relación obligada
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Diversas evidencias sugieren la plausibilidad (y la necesidad) de un análisis biológico del
lenguaje, incluyendo determinados resultados derivados del propio análisis de la estructura y el proceso
de adquisición de las lenguas. De ahí que buena parte de los modelos generados por la teoría lingüística
en las últimas décadas hayan tratado de buscar una legitimación en los datos proporcionados por la
Biología. Sin embargo, una compresión cabal de la naturaleza (necesariamente biológica) del lenguaje
y de su desarrollo ontogenético y filogenético sólo se conseguirá cuando se tengan en cuenta asimismo
los paradigmas y los marcos teóricos actualmente vigentes en el ámbito de la Biología.
Multiple evidences suggest that a biological study of language could be both plausible and necessary, some of them being the output of the structural analysis of languages and the way in which they are acquired by the child. Hence, the current tendency of taking into account biological data to validate (or falsify) the diverse models of language developed by theoretical linguistics. Nevertheless, if we are actually intending to gain a real comprehension of the (biological) nature of language (but also of the way in which it develops, both ontogenetically and phylogenetically), we will further need to integrate as well fresh theoretical frames and paradigms which are at present at the core of biological thinking.
Multiple evidences suggest that a biological study of language could be both plausible and necessary, some of them being the output of the structural analysis of languages and the way in which they are acquired by the child. Hence, the current tendency of taking into account biological data to validate (or falsify) the diverse models of language developed by theoretical linguistics. Nevertheless, if we are actually intending to gain a real comprehension of the (biological) nature of language (but also of the way in which it develops, both ontogenetically and phylogenetically), we will further need to integrate as well fresh theoretical frames and paradigms which are at present at the core of biological thinking.
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Benítez Burraco, A.: "Biología y lenguaje : pasado, presente y futuro de una relación obligada". Anuario de lingüística hispánica. Vol. 27, págs. 9-47, (2011). ISSN 0213-053X












