{"id":15979,"date":"2015-08-08T10:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T17:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/mit-scientists-discover-a-universal-link-between-all-languages"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:38","slug":"mit-scientists-discover-a-universal-link-between-all-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/mit-scientists-discover-a-universal-link-between-all-languages","title":{"rendered":"MIT Scientists Discover A Universal \u2018Link\u2019 Between All Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-scientists-discover-a-universal-link-between-all-languages.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of the roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world, not one commonality has been found connecting them all together \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at MIT have <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2015\/08\/mit-claims-to-have-found-a-language-universal-that-ties-all-languages-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">found what they\u2019re calling a \u201clanguage universal<\/a>,\u201d which focuses on sentence structure as a link among languages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/languagemit\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Gibson<\/a>, a professor of cognitive sciences at MIT and an author of the study, joined HuffPost Live on Friday to discuss his findings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/did-mit-discover-a-universal-link-between-all-languages_55c4d558e4b0923c12bc9c18?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592&kvcommref=mostpopular\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world, not one commonality has been found connecting them all together \u2014 until now. Researchers at MIT have found what they\u2019re calling a \u201clanguage universal,\u201d which focuses on sentence structure as a link among languages. Edward Gibson, a professor of cognitive sciences at MIT and an author [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69752,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15979\/revisions\/69752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}