{"id":3150,"date":"2011-04-15T09:11:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T09:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/04\/15\/evolution-of-language-takes-unexpected-turn\/"},"modified":"2011-04-15T09:11:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T09:11:42","slug":"evolution-of-language-takes-unexpected-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/04\/15\/evolution-of-language-takes-unexpected-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of Language Takes Unexpected Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evolution of Language Takes Unexpected Turn<\/a><\/p>\n

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infoneer-pulse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our brains. But a massive, millennia-spanning analysis of humanity\u2019s major language families suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n

Instead, the language seems to have evolved along varied, complicated paths, guided less by neurological settings than cultural circumstance. If our minds do shape the evolution of language, it\u2019s likely at levels deeper and more nuanced than many researchers anticipated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00bb via Wired<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evolution of Language Takes Unexpected Turn infoneer-pulse: It\u2019s widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our brains. But a massive, millennia-spanning analysis of humanity\u2019s major language families suggests otherwise. Instead, the language seems to have evolved along varied, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-OO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2859,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/12\/prostheticknowledge-glitch-for-dummies-english\/","url_meta":{"origin":3150,"position":0},"title":"prostheticknowledge: Glitch For Dummies English\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 12, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"prostheticknowledge: Glitch For Dummies English translation of article by Rosa Menkman, one of the key voices in glitch art, offering an introduction to the practice: Technically, a glitch is best understood as an unexpected, unexplainable consequence of an interruption within one or more (digital) information flows. 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