We talk about the innate abilities and the learnt abilities, 我们谈论天生的能力和习得的能力 what we inherit and what we acquire, 哪些是遗传的 哪些是后天获取的 what we're given by our culture, our society, our parents, 哪些...
I'll do it in Catalan. 我要用加泰罗尼亚文来写 It's this ability we have to combine sounds to make new meanings 我们把声音组合起来表达新含义的能力 that means how we talk will continue to change 意味着我们的说话方式会...
This allows the parts to be joined together in different ways 这些部分可以按不同方式组合起来 to describe fruit the volunteers have never seen before, 用来描述实验者从未见过的水果 a crucial feature of human language. 这是人...
But the experiment doesn't end there. 但实验并未在这里结束 All the words produced by the first candidate 前一位候选人所创造的单词 are used to create the language for the next person in the experiment, 都作为下一位候选人创...
But there's a twist. 但其中有点改变 Some of the fruit are familiar 就是有些水果是他们熟知的 but half of them have never been seen 但半数都是他们没有见过的 and the volunteers couldn't possibly know the words that describ...
