现在，英国心理学家格兰姆·谢弗发现，早在婴儿会说话之前，他们就能学习单词或一些不寻常的事物。
Now, British research psychologist Gram Shaffer has discovered that infants can learn words or uncommon things long before they can speak.
科学家已教会中风患者重新开口说话，这是通过让中风患者“唱出”、而不是“说出”话来实现的。
Scientists have taught stroke patients to talk again by getting them to sing words instead of speaking them.
这样的交流让哲学家们窃笑，因为他们的日常工作远离了圣人般的说话方式。
This exchange makes professional philosophers titter, because their daily work is far removed from the production of sage utterances.
一个让你自己在晚宴上不受欢迎的好方式就是，从微生物学家的角度指出，一位有代表性的人就是一个会走动并会说话的皮氏培养皿。
A GOOD way to make yourself unpopular at dinner parties is to point out that a typical person is, from a microbiologist's perspective, a walking, talking Petri dish.
为了弄明白我们怎样搞定不熟悉的变音，心理学家们用他们自己捏造的发音对志愿者说话。
To find out how we make sense of unfamiliar inflections, psychologists spoke to volunteers in an accent they'd invented.
这项由珀斯市西澳大利亚大学心理学家安德鲁·怀特豪斯负责的新研究，是首个对晚说话宝宝进行长期跟踪调查的研究。
The new study, led by psychologist Andrew Whitehouse at the University of Western Australia in Perth, is the first to track late talkers over the long haul.
科学家还曾认为，有些孩子学说话时，因为不断重复某些词或声音被父母指责，就开始口吃。
Scientists also used to believe stuttering developed in some children in reaction to parents reprimanding them if they repeated words or sounds while learning to speak.
科学家推测读出认识的短语或唱出熟悉的歌曲也许和没受伤的那部分大脑功能相似，但绝对同于普通人自然地说话。
Scientists speculate that speaking commonly known phrases or singing very familiar songs might tap into different, possibly uninjured, parts of the brain than spontaneous speech does.
南茜·赛特琳博士是波士顿的心理学家，她说害怕在公众前说话是一种常见的社交恐惧症⑥。
Nancy Cetlin, EdD, a Boston psychologist, says that fear of public speaking is a common social phobia.
那位语言病理学家坚称，“他总有一天会学会说话的，”但在我的心里，我已经放弃了希望。
"He will talk," the speech pathologist insisted, but inside, I had given up hope.
为什么没有一个精神病学家站出来说话的？
美国哪三座城市人们的动作最快？——心理学家通过观察银行出纳员找零钱的动作、行人的步伐速度和邮电行业工作人员的说话速度，判定人们动作最快的三座城市是：波斯顿、水牛城和纽约。
By observing how quickly bank tellers made change, pedestrians walked, and postal clerks spoke, psychologists determined that the three fastest-paced U.S. cities are Boston, Buffalo, and New York.
首批研究成果也让我们看到了一位严谨，用数据说话的历史语言学家的作风。
The first results point the way toward a rigorous, quantitative, historical linguistics.
然后这些美国的语言学家会说，“是啊，我们会和我们的狗说话”。
And then the American linguist would say, "Yeah. We speak to our dogs."
其基本前提是，婴儿在他们会说话之前就会交流，在20世纪80年代后期，JosephGarcia及其他科学家对此做过彻底地调查研究。
The basic premise - that babies can communicate before they can talk - was investigated thoroughly by the scientist Joseph Garcia, among others, in the late 1980s.
有些哲学家似乎使用他们为自己发明的一种语言来说话和写作。
Some philosophers seem to speak and write in a language they have invented themselves.
我们的文化也决定着我们谈论记忆力的方式。一些心理学家表示，只有当我们掌握了说话的能力，我们才会有记忆力。
Our culture may also determine the way we talk about our memories, with some psychologists arguing that they only come once we have mastered the power of speech.
负责此研究的科学家发现，即使是关掉声音的录像，婴儿仍然能够区分出说话者是否已经由说英语转换成说法语。
Even with the sound turned off on a video recording, babies were able to tell whether someone had switched from speaking English to speaking French, the scientists who conducted the study found.
科学家称，一只博德牧羊犬可能可以证明狗确实能够理解人类的语言，这引起了媒体的关注，那么还是让它的主人们来说话吧。
A border collie that scientists say may be proof that dogs truly understand human language laps up media attention, but lets his owners do the talking.
据《每日邮报》报道，英国心理学家杰弗里·比蒂教授发现，人类的脚也能“说话”，但人们常常忽略了“脚语”传达的信息。
UK psychologist Professor Geoffrey Beattie said that humans use their feet to give out signals but many people have no idea about the secret messages their feet are giving out, the Daily Mail said.
一个让你自己在晚宴上不受欢迎的好方式就是，从微生物学家的角度指出，一位有代表性的人就是一个会走动并会说话的皮氏培养皿。
GOOD way to make yourself unpopular at dinner parties is to point out that a typical person is, from a microbiologist's perspective, a walking, talking Petri dish.
例如，人类学家埃莉诺·基南发现在马达加斯加岛的一个说马达加斯加语的村落里，说话直截了当的是女性，拐弯抹角的是男性。
Anthropologist Elinor Keenan, for example, found that in a Malagasy-speaking village on the island of Madagascar, it is women who are direct and men who are indirect.
科学家说，教中风病患唱歌来让他们的大脑“重新通电”，有助让他们恢复说话。
Teaching stroke patients to sing "rewires" their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists.
因此科学家们开始州白人类不同于动物因为人类能够说话，而 动物不能。
So scientists are beginning to understand that men are different from animals because they can speak. Animals cannot speak .
费城有两位心理学家证明，汉字可以治疗失读症，因脑损伤而引起的说话能力的丧失。
Two Philadelphia psychologists proved that written Chinese can be a speech therapy. It can cure aphasia, the loss of speech because of brain damage.
一些语言学家指出，儿童在开口说话之前所做的听力的量是不同的，说话晚的孩子“听”的时间就长。
Some linguists say children are greatly different in the amount of listening that they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners.
一些语言学家指出，儿童在开口说话之前所做的听力的量是不同的，说话晚的孩子“听”的时间就长。
Some linguists say children are greatly different in the amount of listening that they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners.
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