Children are linguistic sponges, but this doesn't mean that cursory exposure is enough.

儿童的语可塑性较强，但这并不意味着粗略地接触就足够。

Oh yeah! Almost forgot! I need to take fundamental linguistics, consumer psychology and neuroanatomy.

哦，对！差点儿忘！我想修基础语，消费者心理，还有神经解剖。

Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society.

沃夫进而相信某种类似语决定论的观点，其极端说法是：语禁锢思维，语的语法结构能对一个社会的文化产生深远的影响。

You know what transcends all linguistic and cultural barriers?

到底是什么打破语和文化壁垒？

You may be rolling your eyes, but these segments just prove how flexible we are to make the linguistic contortions that shape up our puns.

你或许会翻白眼，但是这明我们的语是如此的灵活，可以组合出这么多的双关。

In linguistics, it is commonly noted that speech is primary and writing secondary.

语上普遍认为，先有“说”，才有“写”。

In industrialised societies early linguistic development is big business.

在工业化社会中，早期语发展是一项大生意。

Semiotics. The study of signs and symbols. It's a branch of philosophy related to linguistics.

符号，研究符号和象征，是语基本理论的分支。

The researchers were exploring linguistic tools people use to assure fluid communication.

研究人员探索人们为流畅沟通所使用的语工具。

The ability to write is a supreme test of linguistic competence.

写作能力是对语能力的最高形式的测试.

There's a linguistics standard that has to be maintained.

存在必须要持的语标准。

Some linguists even suggest that creaky young ladies are evolving our culture as linguistic innovators.

一语家甚至认为这活跃的年轻女士正如语创造者一样推动文化的演变。

While the concept of a yearly check-in is the same, the linguistics are different.

虽然每年的概念是相同的，但是语却有所不同。

I highly encourage those who want to improve their English to constantly pay attention to their environment, to their surroundings, to all the linguistic input in their environment.

我非常鼓励想要让英文进步的人随时随地注意周遭环境，以及环境里的语使用。

Stephen Fry is an English writer and comedian and is well known for being extremely intelligent and very knowledgeable about many things cultural, historical and linguistic.

斯蒂芬·弗莱是一名英国作家及喜剧演员，并且因为极其聪明和熟知许多文化、历史和语方面的知识而闻名。

Phones, laptops, and televisions are loaded with sensory and linguistic information.

手机、笔记本电脑和电视充斥着感官信息和语信息。

And on one hand, this is great for linguistics, because language change is always driven by groups with shared interests that have a shared need to invent new words.

一方面，这对语是件好事。因为语的演变，向来是由志趣相投、又有造词需求的群体所推动的。

And they tend to end on a rising intonation so I think it's called...I can't remember, it's from my linguistic days at University, something like Australian rising intonation. I think it's called ARI. I might be getting it wrong, anyway.

他们往往以升调结束，所以我认为这叫做。我不记得叫啥，这是我在大的时候的，好像叫澳大利亚升调。应该叫做 ARI。不管怎样，我可能弄错。

But Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionised linguistics.

而诺姆·乔姆斯基则彻底改革语。

And so like I said before, we're talking about language, we're talking about linguistics.

正如我之前说过的那样，我们要谈论语，我们要谈论语。