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

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So there is this sense in which the story of a developing writer is the story of someone learning even before they learn how to control language fully that language has these capacities.

书要讲给我们的,其实就是有关理查学习的过程,告诉我们语言在还无法很好被控制的时候,就已经有能力改变理查的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选