So, we're going to talk about somebody's idea about racial prejudice, but that's not a theory of language acquisition.

我们会谈到某人所提出的,关于种族偏见的理论，但它却并不是语言获得的理论。

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Why, then, should we not study the acquisition of a cognitive structure like language more or less as we study some complex bodily organ?

我们为什么不应当,像研究某些复杂身体器官那样,去或多或少地研究,像语言这样的认知结构的习得

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