Cummings actually boldly experimented with this principle and he attracted the attention of the linguists, particularly a linguist named Dell Hymes.

对此，卡明斯做了一个大胆的试验,吸引了语言学家的注意，特别是德尔海默斯。

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The linguists know that that's not at all necessarily the case.

语言学家认为语言的基本单位不一定是词。

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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 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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