So, part of what goes on when you learn, is you have to learn the language --the phonemes that your language has.

因此你在学习语言时要做的一件事情便是,你必须学习你所学语言的各种音位

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So, early on babies can--are sensitive to all phonemes and then that goes away.

所以,早期的婴儿对于音位非常的敏感,之后这种敏感便消失了

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So, if you're a native monolingual speaker of English you hear speech and each sound you hear is categorized as falling into one of those forty morphemes--sorry, phonemes.

如果你是英语母语的单语说话者,你听到一段演讲,你所听到的每个声音,都被归类为这四十个音位中的一个

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The idea is that English has about forty of these phonemes.

英语拥有大约四十个音位

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So, English-speaking children, for instance, can--English-speaking babies, babies who are born in the United States can distinguish between English phonemes like "Lip" And "Rip".

在美国出生的讲英语的婴儿,能够区分出诸如"Lip"和"Rip"这样的,英语音位上的差别

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