Abstract
This paper attempts to find an acceptable solution to the controversy of mentalist and behaviorist approaches to the language learning, supported by clear evidences from the ancient scripts and very carefully managed observations carried out for this very study. This study does not simply support the mentalist approach on the basis of evidences found during the study but goes beyond the mentalist approach, adding new epistemological facts and new terminology to the repertoire of the linguistic vocabulary to express the newly discovered concepts. The study does not totally reject the role of the behaviourist approach in the socialized progress of the language learning process but is treated as complementary. The study premises that there is a basic and commonly shared linguistic code which comes with the human beings with their birth. This argument has been elaborated, explained and supported by evidences and new terminology has been invented for this purpose because the traditional terminology fails to express this phenomenon fully. This is a case study and follows the techniques of the Observational and Archival Methodologies.
Mukhtiar Muhammad, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal. (2013) Exploring the Role of Brain in Language and Creativity , The Dialogue, Volume 8, issue 3.
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