Alessandra Falzone

BIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON LANGUAGE: NEW DATA FROM HUMAN AUDITORY CORTEX

Preliminary remarks: from foundations to biological constraints of language One of the classical perspectives among the studies on language, beginning with the aristotelic naturalism, considers the anatomical components as correlates, structures that allow the function. This stance gave birth to opposite positions during the last century: if, on one hand, those who reflected on language in a philosophicallinguistic perspective focused only in its functional aspects (ruling out the biological structures in a more or less explicit way, e.g. the chomskyan thesis, Saussure and the structuralism followers), on the other hand some multidisciplinary researchers favoured the structural analysis, regarded as an evolutionary mark of the linguistic function, some sort of guarantee of the language’s unique presence in sapiens (LENNEBERG 1967, LIEBERMAN 1975, etc).

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