Around seven years of age going up through puberty, the ability to learn language starts to go away.

大约七岁的时候开始,一直到青春期,学习语言的能力逐渐减弱

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And once you hit puberty, suddenly there's huge variation in the abilities you have to learn language.

一旦你到了青春期,学习语言的能力会在突然间,发生巨大的变化

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And this suggests that the ability to learn language and understand language is to some extent separate from these other aspects of mental life.

这表明学习语言和理解语言的能力,在某种程度上是独立于,其他方面的心理活动的

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And this is interesting because this suggests that to some extent the ability to use and understand and learn language is part of human nature.

这一点很有意思,因为这表明,从某种程度上来说,语言的使用,理解以及学习能力,是人类本性的一部分

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More speculatively, there has been some fairly recent work studying the genetic basis of language, looking at the genes that are directly responsible for the capacity to learn and use language.

更具体的来说,一些最新的语言遗传基础研究,探查了直接影响语言学习,及使用能力的基因

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