"As you're hearing my words as I'm speaking, your brain is processing those words, and we think analogous to what's going on in the bird, there's genes in particular areas of your brain, that are being expressed very rapidly or decreased very rapidly to allow you to process that information."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Why, in other words, should we think of language as speech, as voice?

换句话说，为什么，我们应该将语言看做是言语，声音？

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