Another idea about the origin of language is that it came from song.

另一种观点认为语言源自歌唱。

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Lacking hard evidence, scholars of the past speculated broadly about the origin of language.

由于缺少可信的证据，对于语言的起源，以往的学者往往只能推测。

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In 1866 the Linguistic Society of Paris got so exasperated by these unmoored musings that it banned all communication on the origin of language.

1866年，巴黎语言学会对这些漫无边际的胡思乱想忍无可忍，因此全面禁止了有关语言起源的学术交流。

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Well, there's a radical claim about the origin of language associated with the guy who we met when we talked about behaviorism who wrote A Review of Verbal Behavior, the linguist Noam Chomsky.

关于语言的起源,语言学家诺姆·乔姆斯基,提出了一个激进的观点,我们曾在讲述行为主义时提到过,他写过篇叫《述评》的论文

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In addition, even if an English-only policy is adopted for nondiscriminatory reasons and applied uniformly, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and some courts take the position that such rules burden national origin minorities because they prevent many members of these groups from speaking the language in which they are best able to communicate.

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Not surprisingly, there is a keen interest in this nowadays but also, in particular, from parents of Chinese origin who want to pass on the language to their kids.

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