{"id":71417,"date":"2017-07-31T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/physics-of-bubbles-could-explain-language-patterns"},"modified":"2017-08-02T21:01:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T04:01:24","slug":"physics-of-bubbles-could-explain-language-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/physics-of-bubbles-could-explain-language-patterns","title":{"rendered":"Physics of bubbles could explain language patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physics-of-bubbles-could-explain-language-patterns.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Language patterns could be predicted by simple laws of physics, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Dr James Burridge from the University of Portsmouth has published a theory using ideas from physics to predict where and how dialects occur.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIf you want to know where you\u2019ll find dialects and why, a lot can be predicted from the physics of bubbles and our tendency to copy others around us.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-07-physics-language-patterns.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;07-physics-language-patterns.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language patterns could be predicted by simple laws of physics, a new study has found. Dr James Burridge from the University of Portsmouth has published a theory using ideas from physics to predict where and how dialects occur. He said: \u201cIf you want to know where you\u2019ll find dialects and why, a lot can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71417","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71575,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71417\/revisions\/71575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}