Another idea about the origin of language is that it came from song.

另一种观点认为语言源自歌唱。

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The origin of language theories can never amount to much more than educated conjecture.

语言起源理论总不会超过其学术性推测的框框。

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Lacking hard evidence, scholars of the past speculated broadly about the origin of language.

由于缺少可信的证据，对于语言的起源，以往的学者往往只能推测。

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Well, there's a radical claim about the origin of language associated with the guy who we met when we talked about behaviorism who wrote A Review of Verbal Behavior, the linguist Noam Chomsky.

关于语言的起源,语言学家诺姆·乔姆斯基,提出了一个激进的观点,我们曾在讲述行为主义时提到过,他写过篇叫《述评》的论文

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But far less complex words have made the passage, often with meanings, or indeed forms like the delightful French shakehand or recordman unknown to the language of origin.

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The intelligence services noted that many families of immigrant origin were rejecting French values and even the French language, following instead more traditional ways of life associated with their ethnic origin - including an increasing religious radicalisation among young Muslims, and a backlash against young Muslim women who wore Western clothing.

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In addition, even if an English-only policy is adopted for nondiscriminatory reasons and applied uniformly, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and some courts take the position that such rules burden national origin minorities because they prevent many members of these groups from speaking the language in which they are best able to communicate.

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