纪录片《为何讲话》 第3期：牙牙学语（在线收听）

Cameras and microphones recorded

摄像机和麦克风不分昼夜地

every second of Deb's son's life

记录着戴布儿子的生活

from the moment he was born until he was three-years-old.

从他出生的那一刻起直到三岁为止

Capturing in precise detail the process of how we learn to talk.

捕捉下了学习讲话过程中的每个微小细节

Blue ball. Blue ball.

蓝球 蓝球

Blue ball, yeah.

对 就是蓝球

From the earliest unintelligible babble

从最初并无实际意义的牙牙学语

to the emergence of a very first word.

直到第一个完整单词的出现

Apple. Apple.

苹果 苹果

Yeah, apple.

对啦 苹果

My interest going in was really to understand

我的兴趣在于了解

the earliest stages of language formation,

语言形成的最初阶段

and the typical development stages in language,

以及语言发展的几个典型阶段

a child will go from babbling to using single words

从孩子牙牙学语到使用单个的词语

usually as a complete request and descriptions, and then

通常是一个简单的请求或描述

from that they will start what's called the two-word stage

接下来就会进入所谓的"双词阶段"

where they'll put two words together like "more milk"

两个词语一起使用 比如"更多牛奶"

and from that, very quickly more complex grammatical structures emerge.

之后更复杂的语法结构就会快速形成