{"id":1420,"date":"2012-02-29T20:06:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2012-02-29T20:06:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T20:06:04","slug":"animated-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/animated-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Animated linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is leap day, the extra day we get every four years. Why not use it to learn a little more about linguistics?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stevenpinker.com\/\">Steven Pinker<\/a> is a well-known linguist (amongst other things), with specializations in visual cognition and psycholinguistics. He\u2019s also very good at making complex ideas seem very understandable and engaging, which is why I love this video illustrating a talk he gave to the RSA.<\/p>\n<p>In it, Pinker \u201cshows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings\u201d. Take a look and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3-son3EJTrU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is leap day, the extra day we get every four years. Why not use it to learn a little more about linguistics? Steven Pinker is a well-known linguist (amongst other things), with specializations in visual cognition and psycholinguistics. He\u2019s also very good at making complex ideas seem very understandable and engaging, which is why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,44],"tags":[1107,25,108,1108],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-words","tag-animated-linguistics","tag-languages","tag-linguistics","tag-meanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}