THE BIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE NATURE

Dominant linguistics paradigms in the past several decades were focused exclusively on the surface forms of language, the product of human behavior, rather than on internal processes that underlie and shape that behavior. According to this studies the nature of language can be understood studying the external language, the set of expressions produced by speakers, the external forms of language: sounds, morphological units, words, utterances, texts, that exist apart from any individual (Anderson and Lightfoot 2002).

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