We have a music instinct as much as a language instinct, and could not rid ourselves of it if we tried.

人类的音乐禀赋同语言不相上下，摆脱音乐可谓欲罢而不能。

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My lectures, and the recommended reading from my books How the mind Works (1997) and the Language Instinct (1994) try to weave a coherent story about the mind.

我的授课，以及建议选读的两本书《心智如何运作》(1997)、《语言本能》(1994)，会试著为心智编织出一个融贯的故事。

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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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And what Darwin is claiming here, and it's a controversial and interesting claim, is that language is special in that there's some sort of propensity or capacity or instinct for language unlike the other examples he gives.

达尔文在此所表达的观点,极具争议而又非常有趣,这个观点认为,语言之所以特殊,是因为总有某些倾向,能力或本能,使得语言与他所举的其他例子有所不同

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Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, US, and the author of the best-sellers The Language Instinct and How The Mind Works.

BBC: Aventis science prize 2003 - Pinker

Babel raises the question of the universal-language instinct.

ECONOMIST: Canons of conflict