Cyber Heroes

After getting the paper, Lao Liu took Xiang Shan around in the office area of ​​the semifinished product, greeted some scholars he knew in the past and exchanged new contact information. . Xiang Shan was forced to put several kilograms in his arms and communicate with colleagues from all over the world when he was close to heatstroke.

Thanks to this, Xiang Shan wants to get the contact information of twenty or thirty famous scholars and outstanding young scholars.

Lao Liu happily said that these all are future contacts.

Xiang Shan is quite complaining about this. Bathing is now a collective bathhouse, and it takes a long time to line up. I squeezed a stinky sweat there because I didn't have much help. Moreover, the scholars in it may have no intersection after finishing this project.

But Lao Liu taught Xiang Shan, the so-called "relationship" is like this. Whenever he needs to open a cooperative project, he will be aware of the convenience of this "connection".

When Xiang Shan left, David Klein yelled behind him that he had better come back this afternoon, because the engineering research department hopes to build a stand in the past few days Come out-it's best to divide into several groups or something. In addition, the afternoon is also the deadline for accepting applications for laboratory equipment. If you have any special requirements for the laboratory environment, it is best to ask them now.

Xiang Shan doesn't take this seriously. Now everyone doesn't know what they are going to study, nor can they start any projects or topics. This division of groups may not be meaningful. As for laboratory equipment, Lao Liu would naturally mention it. He basically knows all the fields he is involved in, and he must also need the equipment he needs.

Xiang Shan spent the whole noon in the cafeteria. After he came to the cafeteria, the first thing he did was to take a disposable cup, scoop up half a cup of ice for himself, then take a glass of soda, drink it all, and take another one to the seat.

Before lunch, Xiang Shan intends to go through those papers. He took those papers out of the paper bag. David gave him dozens of papers, and of course he didn't have the time to read them one by one. Every essay is just like a novella, and it's a kind of brain-burning one.

Xiang Shan took out a paper, first looked at the abstract at the beginning, then at the conclusions at the back, and then set it aside. In addition, the summary of other papers is also listed separately. Occasionally, when you encounter a direction that you might be interested in, you can fold the corner of the cover to remind you that you have time to take a look.

Several people in the cafeteria are doing similar things.

"Yeah, are you also looking at the paper?" Jing Hongtu took the dinner plate and sat opposite Xiang Shan: "Professor Liu is not with you?"

"He It should be still in the research center-what a coincidence, Professor Jing." Xiang Shan said hello, his eyes still dinged on a paper: "Wait a moment, I'm finishing this- ah!"

Xiang Shan just reached out for his soda, but his arm accidentally touched another person. There was another person sitting beside him silently just now!

A woman blinked her eyes and said innocently to Xiang Shan: "Hi~!"

This woman is about the same age as Xiang Shan, and she is also twenty three-four. age. She is just like the "European" in the stereotype of East Asians. She has blond hair, blue eyes and fair skin. Here is a special mention. Her skin is whiter than ordinary Europeans. With pale-gold long hair, it is quite hassle. Several points of "Immortal Qi".

The woman is quite innocent: "I came with Professor Jing. I really didn't expect to scare you. I'm sorry."

"No, I was too focused... …Wait…" Xiang Shan looked at the woman in front of him suspiciously.

Xiang Shan's English proficiency is at a normal level in the academic world, and there is no problem in understanding English. But what this woman said just now seems to be...very standard, without accent...

"Is more used to speaking Cantonese? Are you living in the Cantonese area?" The woman changed her expression naturally. Kind of dialect.

This time Xiang Shan was completely dumbfounded: "No, so I don’t understand...Ma’am, your Chinese is really good."

The woman rolled the roll with a fork. Pasta on the plate: "Thank you."

"This is Miss Ingrid Granat. Miss Granat and I had a very speculative chat, so I stopped by and had lunch together. , And then I saw you from a distance, just thinking about saying hello." Jing Hongtu said: "Miss Granat is an associate researcher at the University of Oslo in Norway, a person who is very difficult to deal with. She has a natural instinct for language. I have learned many languages ​​very early. Now I am doing research on the direction of second language acquisition."

"Second language acquisition" is the abbreviation of "second language acquisition". It is a research direction of linguistics. Its research directions include: how learners build a new language and system after limited exposure to a second language; why most second language learners cannot have the same knowledge as native speakers; why most people second language The level of language learning is not up to the level of the native language, and so on, is a complex and three-dimensional field.

"Accurately speaking, I know more than one language in each traditional language family—plus Japanese, which cannot be classified." Ingrid laughed, quite contented.

Xiang Shan thought for a while before he understood what it meant, and immediately stood in awe.

Language family and language family are concepts in historical comparative linguistics. It is like taxonomy of species, classifying every language in the world according to the distance of kinship. For example, "Chinese" belongs to the "Sino-Tibetan language family-Chinese language family-Chinese branch-Chinese". Some Europeans understand four or five languages, but in fact they can be included in the "Indo-European language family-Germanic language family-Western branch" and In "Indo-European Languages-Romantic Languages-Italian-Cyromantic Branches", the difficulty is not at the same level as "there are several languages ​​in each language family".

"Well, I would like to ask...How long will it take you to learn a language?" Xiang Shan thought for a moment, and asked the question he cared most.

"Um...this is actually hard to say. It takes a certain amount of time to improve my vocabulary... There are several languages ​​that I have only reached the level of elementary school students, and there is basically no dyslexia, but occasionally I need to consult a dictionary." Ingrid thought for a while, and said: "But if you only require'learning', it's not particularly difficult. A month is enough."

Xiang Shan some Perplexed: "Madam, take the liberty to ask, are you sure you know the meaning of the Chinese slang term'eba month'?"

"A few, a few, one or two." Ingrid nodded: "I still know this."

Jing Hongtu laughed. The most indispensable thing in academia is the "juvenile genius". You won the teaching position in your twenties, and I graduated with a bachelor's degree in my teens. There are not a few who stand out in the undergraduate age and become famous in the academic world.

In contrast, "late bloomers" researchers are even rarer-but there are still some examples.

"Learning a language is actually not as difficult as imagined-well, in a sense I may be special? But it is not impossible to copy." Ingrid took a sip of pasta, and then used The fork pointed at Xiang Shan: "Xiang, do you believe in'universal grammar'?"

"What?"

"One of Chomsky's language theory, a linguist from the United States Terminology. Mr. Chomsky believes that language is created and grammar is generated. Children are born with a kind of universal grammar. Universal grammar is essentially a specific state of the brain related to language knowledge, a kind of Human individuals are enough to learn the physical mechanism of any human language and the corresponding psychological mechanism.” Ingrid said: “Perhaps there is a certain physical structure in the baby’s brain. During the growth of the baby’s brain, this kind of physical The structure will be affected by the external cultural environment and develop into a'language function'-and the'feature' shown by the primordial structure may be the'universal grammar'."

Xiang Shan scratches his head : "It's like saying that my newborn nephew has all human language in his mind-I think this is more like a myth than a science."

"Knowing his hero, Shou The female is Tianxiaxi. Tianxiaxi, Changde will not leave, and return to the baby." Ingrid said seriously: "There is indeed a similar argument in your ancient philosophy. But this is not because it must be attributed to'myth.' I am. I can only say... I personally feel that universal grammar beyond'language' should exist. I hope that through my research, I can dig it out of my mind."

Xiang Shan nodded "Well, it sounds like a great research..."

"Miss Granat has a very wide range of reading and has a very unique understanding of anthropology." Jing Hongtu said with a smile.

"Perhaps they called me here because they think I have hope to learn the language of aliens." Ingrid was helpless: "But dead language and living language are completely different concepts. And from the perspective of everyone in biology, the'universal grammar' of aliens may be completely different from that of Earth people."

After a few conversations, Xiang Shan basically went through the paper. He put the paper back into the paper bag, and then went to fetch the meal. When the lighthouse returned, several fire trucks drove past the windows.

Xiang Shan dug a spoonful of mashed potatoes and put it in his mouth: "What is this? There is no fire here, right?"

"This should be a fire truck mobilized locally." Jing Hongtu said: "I heard that the'tent' is trying to change the preservation environment of the'Ogon'... They don't plan to divide the'Ogon', and it is difficult to carry such a huge metal object away. They had to drain the surrounding sea water. Because they were worried that oxygen would damage the contents of the'Ogun', they also planned to fill the'tent' with more stable gas. Those fire trucks should be transporting the sea water away?"

Xiang Shan is very strange: “It’s okay if the seawater is discharged directly into the sea?”

“Perhaps it is because of biological pollution. Don’t discharge it indiscriminately.”

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