Relevant and Possible Contributions of the Instinctive Theory of Language inherent to Biolinguistics and Pinker's Evolutionary Linguistics for the Programmatic Field of Psycholinguistics Research

Abstract

This article discusses how the instinctive theory of language postulated by Pinker (2002), under the precepts of Biolinguistics (MEADER & MUYSKENS, 1950/1962) and of Evolutionary Linguistics based on the Evolutionary Theory of Natural Selection (Darwin 1859/2003), can contribute to the theoretical-methodological development of Psycholinguistics (OSGOOD & SEBEOK, 1954) regarding its academic-scientific inquiries and how it can also favor - in less extension and range nowadays, however in more coverage capacity in next times - in the inventory and description of psycholinguistics phenomena underlying cognitive activity, as well as at a detailed explanation of cognitive principles inherent to exercise of faculty of language through linguistic communication performed by human beings throughout solid, biological and organic foundation. For this, initially it will be considered a historical analysis and a characterization of two important specialized areas of Linguistics intimately harmonized with the Generativism or Generative Linguistics (CHOMSKY, 1955/1975, 1957): Psycholinguistics (OSGOOD & SEBEOK, 1954) and Biolinguistics (MEADER & MUYSKENS, 1950/1962) so that there may then be, in the sequence, the discussion of how the instinctive theory of language is able to subsidize the development of the psycholinguistic field. In sum, it is checked the potency that those interdisciplinary fields to Psycholinguistics own so as to let a theory of language acquisition and processing which has its guidelines and defining principles supported over the factors that allowed the birth and evolution of the language until today and on the biologic bases which enabled and that continue facilitating that process along the time.