When a human infant is born into any community in any part ofthe world it has two things in common with any infant, provided　　　　　　 1．______neither of them have been damaged in any way either before or　　　　　　　 2．______during birth. Firstly, and most obviously, new born children arecompletely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to pay attention to　　 3．______their helplessness by using sound, there is nothing the new bornchild can do to ensure his own survival. Without care from someother human being or beings, be it mother, grandmother, or humangroup, a child is very unlikely to survive. This helplessness of humaninfants is in marked contrast with the capacity of many newborn animals to get on their feet within minutes of birth and run　　　　　 4．______with the herd within a few hours.　　Although young animals are certainly in risk, sometimes for　　　　　　 5．______weeks or even months after birth, compared with the human infantthey very quickly develop the capacity to fend for them.　　　　　　　　　　6．______It is during this very long period in which the human infant istotally dependent on the others that it reveals the second feature　　　　　7．______which it shares with all other undamaged human infants,a capacity to learn language. For this reason, biologists now suggest thatlanguage be ‘species specific’ to the human race, that is to say, they　　8．______consider the human infant to be genetic programmed in　　　　　　　　　　 　9．______such a way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies that　　　 10．______just as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in color, and justas they are designed to stand upright rather than tomove on all fours, so they are designed to learn and use language aspart of their normal development as.

发布日期：2022-06-09

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