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据说,法国皇家科学院在多年前就明文公告:不接受探讨人类语言起源的论文。这至少说明了人们研究这一问题的热忱与这一问题的难度间的巨大的剪刀差。或许还不能认为平克的《语言本能》一书已经彻底揭示了人类语言的起源,但是阅读这本书仍然使我们惊异,他是如此轻松地颠覆了我们多年来的习惯看法,并雄辩地论证了语言不是文化的产物,而是人类的一种本
It is said that the Royal French Academy of Sciences published an announcement many years ago that it did not accept the essay on the origins of human languages. This at least shows that there is a huge scissors gap between the enthusiasm of people in studying this issue and the difficulty of this issue. It may not yet be assumed that Pinker's book The Language Instinct has thoroughly uncovered the origins of the human language but reading this book still amazes us. It is so easy for us to subvert our years of customary opinions and eloquently argue Language is not a product of culture, but a kind of humanity