来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论第7集》

Me eat, me eat.

我吃吃我
Me banana, you banana, me you give.

我香蕉你香蕉我你给
Banana me, me eat. Give orange,

香蕉我我吃给橙子
me give, eat orange, me eat orange."

我给吃橙子我吃橙子"
Lila Gleitman once commented that

莱拉·格雷特曼曾经评论说
if any normally developing child spoke like this,

如果任何一个正常发育的儿童这样去说话
his parents would rush him screaming to a neurologist.

那他的父母就该带他去看神经科专家了
There's a broader question here, which is,

更具争议的问题则是
"Why would we ever expect a chimpanzee

"为什么我们想要黑猩猩
to learn a human language?"

学习人类的语言呢"
We don't normally expect one species

一般来说我们不希求一个物种
to have the capacities associated with another species.

具有和其他物种进行交流的能力