Of course,with signers,their first language has no written system at all, just hand gestures.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

this is on page 847 about halfway down the left-hand column: segment of language can never in the final analysis be based on anything except its noncoincidence with the rest.

翻到847页的左下角：,对于语言片段的理解,只能基于它和其他语言的不相似处。

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On the other hand, there is considerable evidence that the development of these language skills, in some way, is similar to growth in the way that Chomsky suggests.

另一方面,有大量证据表明,这些语言技能的发展,在某些方面,与乔姆斯基所提出的发展方式相类似

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MCC Director Irene Paxia grew up in Italy, and knows first-hand how language barriers can waste precious time in emergencies.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

But it's amazing to read the letters and the language of slave traders when they write to each other, the complacency, the mixture of just pure racism on the one hand and just business language on the other.

当你阅读到那些奴隶商们,在往来的书信中所使用的言辞时,会令你非常震惊的,一面是混合在纯粹的种族歧视中的自满,另一面是那种完全商业化的措辞

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I think it is a combination of a very,very distinct special language on one hand and then on the other, she has really a story to tell about growing up in a dictatorship but also growing up as a minority in another country and also growing up sort of a stranger for your own family.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

On the other hand, when we think about how severe autism is, we do look at things like how much language does the person have, and in that sense, it is related to development.

另一方面,当我们考虑孤独症的严重程度时,我们确实是在探究,诸如个体掌握了多少语言之类的问题,从这种意义上来说,它和发展是有关系的

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