And Chomsky's argument is complicated and interesting, but the main sort of argument he had to make is goes like this.

乔姆斯基的论据很复杂，也很有意思，但他所提出的主要论据是这样的。

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So, you might learn to play baseball, you might learn about the American Civil War, but if Chomsky is right you didn't learn to speak English.

因此,你可能学会打棒球,学到关于美国内战的知识,但如果乔姆斯基是对的,那么说英语并不是习得的

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More generally, Chomsky suggests that the law of effect when applied to humans is either trivially true, trivially or uninterestingly true, or scientifically robust and obviously false.

更一般的来讲，乔姆斯基认为应用在人类身上的效果律,要么是无效且毫无意义的正确假说，要么就是稳定且明显的错误假说。

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Some studies have, motivated by Chomsky's work in expressed sorry, motivated by Chomsky's critique of Skinner's Verbal Behavior, have asked even in -- "What if we just looked at children within the United States?

受到乔姆斯基,《斯金纳述评》的启发,一些研究甚至询问道,"要是我们只研究美国儿童又会怎样呢"

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Well, there's a radical claim about the origin of language associated with the guy who we met when we talked about behaviorism who wrote A Review of Verbal Behavior, the linguist Noam Chomsky.

关于语言的起源,语言学家诺姆·乔姆斯基,提出了一个激进的观点,我们曾在讲述行为主义时提到过,他写过篇叫《述评》的论文

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And Chomsky makes this radical claim.

乔姆斯基提出了这个激进的观点

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An alternative, though, is that there's separate modules, and this is a view developed, again, by Noam Chomsky, and also by the philosopher of mind Jerry Fodor, who claimed that the whole idea of a child developing as a single story is mistaken.

而另一种观点则认为是存在独立模块的,这个观点还是诺姆·乔姆斯基提出的,心灵哲学家杰瑞·福多尔,也同样提出过类似观点,这个观点认为,将儿童发展单独看待的整个观念,都是错误的

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Finally, the other reading you're going to do section of the course is Chomsky's classic article, his "Review of Verbal Behavior."

最后，你们在学习这一章节时,需要阅读的另一篇文章，for，this，part—,是乔姆斯基的一篇经典文章，叫做《述评》

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