We want to know as curious people how children learn language, what we find attractive or unattractive, and what's the basis for mental illness.
人类的好奇心驱使我们去探索,儿童如何学习语言,什么会被感知为迷人或丑陋,心理疾病的成因又是什么
Because, I mean after all, who are children but people who are learning how to read and to write.
因为,儿童也是正在学习阅读和写作的人。
And Piaget argued that these two mechanisms of learning drove the child through different stages.
皮亚杰认为,这两种学习机制,帮助儿童跨越各个阶段
I am interviewing Chinese immigrant children and European children to see how they learn
我正在采访中国移民儿童和欧洲儿童,看看他们是如何学习的。
But, also, there are genetic disorders, some falling under the rubric of what's known as "Specific language impairment," where children are born without the same ability as the rest of us to learn to speak.
但被叫做"特殊言语损伤"的遗传障碍,也能使你失去语言能力,儿童出生便不具有,我们其他人所具有的学习说话的能力
And more recently, there's been case studies of children who acquire sign language.
而近期更有些关于儿童学习手语的,个案研究
It is very difficult to find any effect of how parents talk to their kids on how their kids learn language, particularly when it comes to babies.
家长跟儿童的说话方式,并未对儿童如何学习语言,产生任何影响,尤其是在对待婴儿的时候
What this means, if you average it out, is that since children start learning their first words at about their first year of life, they learn about nine new words a day.
如果你将这个数字平均一下,这意味着,儿童从一岁左右,学习第一个词开始,每天学会九个新词
But the cases of specific language impairments suggest that all of that is wrong, because there are children in this world right now who are plenty smart, who really want to communicate, and who are entirely social creatures but they can't learn language.
但是特殊言语损伤的案例表明,以上的所有都是错的,因为现在在世界上,会有些足够聪明,想要交流,完全社会生物的儿童,他们无法学习语言
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