来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论 第6集 第6集》

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  basic units of meaning
  是意义的基本单位
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  and syntax, which refer to rules and principles
  以及语法 是指将词和短语
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  that put together words and phrases into meaningful utterances.
  组成有意义表达的规则和原则
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  And I want to talk briefly about each of these three parts of language
  在探讨一些其他问题之前
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  before looking at some other issues.
  我想简单的讲一下语言的这三个成分
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  I'm indebted here to Steven Pinker's excellent book
  非常感谢史蒂芬·平克写了这本精彩的
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  The Language Instinct
  《语言本能》一书
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  which provides, I think, a superb discussion of these phenomena.
  我认为该书对这些现象进行了极好的讨论
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  And I'm going to steal some of my examples from Pinker.
  我将会从平克那里借用一些例子
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  So, phonology.
  先说语音
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  Phonology is the system of sounds that languages have.
  语音是语言的声音系统
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  There's a subset.
  它拥有一个子集