Every language is part of a specific linguistic family, which in turn is part of a larger linguistic family.

任何一种语言都属于某一特定语系，而后者又可归属于更大的某一语系。

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That's to say we're very sensitive to changes in our immediate linguistic environment, including the family, television and things we hear in trains and on the subway.

它的意思是说，我们对周围的语言环境十分敏感，这包括家里的、电视上的、火车和地铁里的各种语言环境。

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To find out which linguistic features travel together, and might thus be parts of Chomskyan modules, means drawing up a reliable linguistic family tree.

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To do so he looked at three well-studied parts of the linguistic family tree: the Bantu languages of Africa, the Indo-European group from Eurasia and the Austronesians of the Pacific.

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Then they would map the world by transnational issues, as one would with trans-state or trans-regional issues at home: ethnic, racial, linguistic, cultural, religious, business, labor, women, family, generational, environmental, and so forth.

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