So, we're going to talk about somebody's idea about racial prejudice, but that's not a theory of language acquisition.

我们会谈到某人所提出的,关于种族偏见的理论，但它却并不是语言获得的理论。

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His desire for the intellectual download from Chad is not what's going to make him the figure of the new language for Sal.

他渴望从乍得那里像下载一样地获得的知识,并不会使他成为新的语言大师。

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There seems to be no interesting difference between how the brain comes to acquire and use the spoken language versus a sign language.

似乎大脑在如何获得和使用口语语言,与如何获得和使用手语之间,不存在任何的差别

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It's like the part of the brain that's responsible for language learning is only around early in development and if you don't get your language by then it'll just run out.

就好像负责语言学习的大脑区域,只是在发展的早期比较活跃,如果你没有在这个时候获得语言,那你就没有机会了

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One of the real surprising findings in my field over the last ten/twenty years has been that the acquisition of sign languages has turned out to be almost exactly the same; in fact, as far as we know, exactly the same as the acquisition of spoken languages.

过去的十到二十年间,在我的研究领域里最令人吃惊的发现之一就是,各种手语的获得过程,被证明几乎是完全相同的,实际上据我所知,和口语语言的获得过程是完全相同的

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