I'm indebted here to Steven Pinker's excellent book The Language Instinct which provides, I think, a superb discussion of these phenomena.

非常感谢史蒂芬·平克写了这本精彩的,《语言本能》一书,我认为该书对这些现象进行了极好的讨论

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So how are we to account for the diversification of languages, the spread of different ethnic linguistic groups throughout the lands of the earth if we all come from one common creative moment, one common ancestor?

所以，如果我们都起源于同一个时刻，来源于,同一个祖先，那又要怎样解释语言的多样性，怎样解释,使用不同语言的族群遍布地球上的所有土地,这一现象呢？

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You could see this when you hear a language you don't already know.

当你听到一种你从未听过的语言时,你便会理解这个现象

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