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纪录片《为何讲话》 第31期：珍珠鸟
To adapt a song without being taught how to 没有学过就能修改鸣叫声 means the finches must have some innate ability. 说明珍珠鸟必然有某种天生的能力 In the bird, seems to be somehow encoded 鸟类体中 似乎有某种密码 s
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第32期：揭开人类讲话之谜
The origin of language must lie in our genes. 就是语言的源头必在我们的基因里 It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. 这就如同大海捞针 Unpicking the genetic component of language is a huge challenge. 分析语言的基
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第33期：语言障碍症
when our children was born, 我们的孩子出生后 they found it very harder, or severe, for talking. 都感到说起话来很困难 But some people at school would take the mick out of me. 在学校总有人嘲笑我 Faraneh and her team spent sev
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第34期：基因的缺陷
The family at the time consisted of 30 members 那时这个家庭有三十名成员 and 15 of the members had inherited 其中十五人由祖母 a speech and language disorder from the grandmother. 遗传了说话与语言障碍 The first genetic stu
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第35期：准确发音的基因
So you really have to recognise that there is a huge element of luck 你就会觉得真的是超好的运气 that was involved in allowing this discovery to be made. 让我们有了这个发现 Finally, they had the breakthrough they needed. 最终 他
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第36期：基因之间的关系
The discovery of FOXP2 in humans 人体中FOXP2的发现 marked a significant step forward for linguistic science. 是语言科学发展的一个重要里程碑 One family had unlocked some of the key secrets of speech in all of us. 一个家族揭示了
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第37期：追踪语言
Once we had the anatomy and physiology required for speech, 从我们拥有说话必备的生理结构那刻起 we were primed to talk. 就准备好了说话 Enriched their lives enormously. 极大地丰富了他们的生命 I don't know why I said i
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第38期：语言的出现
We may have been physically able to speak 从生理上说 我们那时就可以说话了 but linguists believe 但语言学家认为 it's more likely that the birth of language coincided with 语言的产生应该是在五万年前 the proliferation
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第39期：社会分工
We had something that no other animal does 有些事情其它动物做不了 and that's what humans do is that they divide up the tasks. 只有人类能做 那就是社会分工 So, early in our evolution, 所以 人类进化早期 somebody might hav
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第40期：语言系统
Can you remember this language? 你能记住这种语言吗 It's one you've never seen or heard before. 你之前从未见过或听过这种语言 It's been created by Simon Kirby 它是由西蒙柯比创造出来的 and is made up of words that desc
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第41期：没有辨识度的音节
But there's a twist. 但其中有点改变 Some of the fruit are familiar 就是有些水果是他们熟知的 but half of them have never been seen 但半数都是他们没有见过的 and the volunteers couldn't possibly know the words that describ
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第42期：创造语言
But the experiment doesn't end there. 但实验并未在这里结束 All the words produced by the first candidate 前一位候选人所创造的单词 are used to create the language for the next person in the experiment, 都作为下一位候选人创
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第43期：真实的语言
This allows the parts to be joined together in different ways 这些部分可以按不同方式组合起来 to describe fruit the volunteers have never seen before, 用来描述实验者从未见过的水果 a crucial feature of human language. 这是人
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第44期：语言的高深
I'll do it in Catalan. 我要用加泰罗尼亚文来写 It's this ability we have to combine sounds to make new meanings 我们把声音组合起来表达新含义的能力 that means how we talk will continue to change 意味着我们的说话方式会
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纪录片《为何讲话》 第45期：人与人之间的语言产生
We talk about the innate abilities and the learnt abilities, 我们谈论天生的能力和习得的能力 what we inherit and what we acquire, 哪些是遗传的 哪些是后天获取的 what we're given by our culture, our society, our parents, 哪些
