Biolinguistics
Biolinguistics is an interdisciplinary category of linguistics that is concerned with the biology behind the systems of human language. This is a relatively new and complex study that includes areas of linguistics, biology, psychology, and mathematics. At its core, the study of biolinguistics attempts to explain how the functions of the brain … Keep Reading → result in the different patterns and forms of language that are displayed. This a highly theoretical field and there are many critics. Much of the criticism revolves around the approach of biolinguistics which often treats the process of communication as something similar to a mathematical formula where a type of communication can be traced back to a definable set of computational steps. Biology is based on a process of evolution and not the fixed laws of physics and mathematics. Much like biology itself the study of biolinguistics is evolving.
