LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:6 June 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Evolution of Human Language – A Biolinguistic, Biosemiotic and Neurobiological Perspective

Mohammad Nehal and Mohammad Afzal

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An attempt is made here to approach the origin and evolution of human language from the foundational perspective of the faculty of language as a species specific attribute, found nowhere else in the animal kingdom. The rebirth of cognitive psychology started with Noam Chomsky as a major development in attempting a scientific basis of the understanding of language with a major empirical basis in neurobiology and neuroethology. While the study of language still remains a challenging area for philosophical and methodological debate, it enlightens many new areas of cognitive psychology and sets many new neuroscientific agenda for future research.

The biolinguistic, biosemiotic and neurobiological perspective focuses the origin of language problem as a working programme to find fruitful answers to many questions in neurology and attempts solutions to correct many language disorders in clinical practice.

Despite a number of theories and approaches proposed to explain the origin of language in humans (Afzal et al 2007, Nehal and Afzal 2012) the basis of language generation and development in human remains a mystery (Smith and Kirby 2008). Tremendous advancements in the field of neurology, psychology, developmental genetics, computer science and engineering have addressed different fields of language and communication research and many questions of biology, psychology and medicine are being solved (Christiansen and Kirby 2003).

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Mohammad Nehal, B.Sc. (Biology), B.A. Hons. (English), M.A. (English), Ph.D. (Linguistics)
Department of English
Sabour College
T.M. Bhagalpur University
Sabour 813210
Bihar
India
md.nehal2012@rediffmail.com

Mohammad Afzal, B.Sc. Hons. (Zoology), M.Sc. (Zoology), Ph.D. (Genetics)
Department of Zoology
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh-202002
Uttar Pradesh
India
Afzal1235@rediffmail.com
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