我们知道新生儿有天生的语言能力，但研究人员通过这个实验才了解这种语言能力是什么？它们是怎样运行的？
It was already well known that babies have some innate language capacities, but researchers are only just beginning to understand what these capacities are and how they work.
皮利的实验证明了察塞有能力掌握基本的“语言”和明白名词和动词的关系，比如取回、抓、鼻子。
Pilley's experiments showed that Chaser was capable of a rudimentary "language" — and understood the relationship between nouns and verbs like fetch, paw, and nose.
许多有正常语言能力的孤儿在实验中接受否定性的语言矫正之后，都遭受了消极的心理影响，有些孩子甚至一生中不能摆脱言语障碍的困扰。
Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects and some retained speech problems during the course of their life.
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