With respect to language, we should like to know how narrowly defined the biological matrix is. This is entirely an empirical question, and the objective is not to find out whether the environment is necessary (it clearly is) and not even how much or what it contributes to the development of language (the answers are almost too obvious to deserve much attention)；the only thoroughly interesting problem here is to discover the range of possible alternatives to the common modes of internal organization for language processing. At present, we have only indirect clues (language universals, common age for language onset, and a universal strategy for language acquisition), and these point to great specificity of the underlying matrix.
至於語言方面，我們要知道如何嚴格界定生物矩陣。這完全是一個經驗性的問題，目標不是找出發展語言是否需要環境（這是顯而易見的）和甚至有多少或什麼方式有助於發展語言（答案幾乎明顯到值得重視） ;這個唯一有趣的問題是，要發現各種可能替代共同的內部組織語言處理的模式。目前，我們只能用間接線索（語言共通性，語言開始的共同年齡，和一個語言習得普遍的策酪） ，這些是基本矩陣的重大特殊指向。
In the light of these comments we may ask now,” Just what is postulated to be innate in language behavior?” Essentially the modes of categorization as discussed in Chapter Seven and Eight. This is an aspect of the latent structure. Innate also is the general mode actualization process but no particular aspect of the realized structure. Thus, no features that are characteristic of only certain natural languages, either particulars of syntax, or phonology, or semantics, are assumed here to be innate. However, there are many reasons to believe that the processes by which the realized, outer structure of a natural language comes about are deeply-rooted, species-specific, innate properties of man's biological nature.
根據這些意見，我們現在可能會問: “究竟什麼是是天生的語言行為的必要條件？ ”第七章和第八章中討論分類方式的本質。這是一個潛在結構的面向。先天也是一般模式實現的過程，但沒有特別去實現結構的面向。因此，只有限於自然語言中的功能和特點，無論是細部的句法，或音韻，或語意，在這裡假設語言是天生的。然而，有許多理由可以相信這些實現的過程，像是外部結構的一種自然的語言來的是根深蒂固的，具體的物種情況，人類生物性質的天生特性。
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