Some linguists would interview --Linguists would interview adults in these communities and say, "Why don't you speak to your babies?"

语言学家们会访问,住在这些社会中的成人,然后问道,"你为什么不和你的宝宝说话"

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And linguists have all of these conditions they say, "No language in the world works this way."

而语言学家们知道这些条件,他们会说"世界上没有语言会这样表达"

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And most linguists would argue "Yes," that languages are highly constrained in how they do things.

大多数语言学家们都会回答"是的",语言在很大程度上依赖于语法规则的使用

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And that's the sort of thing linguists study.

这就是语言学家们所研究的内容

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And this is what linguists do for a living so if you hear me talking about this and say, "I want to spend the next forty years of my life studying that," you should become a linguist.

这就是语言学家们研究的问题,如果你听了我的讲解然后说,"我想用我的余生来研究这些东西",那你该去做一个语言学家

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