{"id":16326,"date":"2017-05-04T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/?p=16326"},"modified":"2017-11-29T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:49:11","slug":"language-out-of-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/news\/language-out-of-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Language Out of Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"desc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16328\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/news\/language-out-of-nothing\/attachment\/davidson_0517\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/davidson_0517.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,450\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"davidson_0517\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/davidson_0517-1024x384.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/davidson_0517-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/davidson_0517-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/davidson_0517-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/davidson_0517-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/davidson_0517.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Searching for the nature of speech, sign, and universal grammar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\"Davidson\u2019s work on sign languages spans the divide between applied and theoretical linguistics, contributing to both abstract debates about language in the mind and questions with immediate impacts on people\u2019s lives. Harvard\u2019s small but formidable linguistics department thrives on its interest in the union of theory and empirical research.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2017\/05\/a-language-out-of-nothing\">Read the full story in Harvard Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Searching for the nature of speech, sign, and universal grammar \"Davidson\u2019s work on sign languages spans the divide between applied and theoretical linguistics, contributing to both abstract debates about language in the mind and questions with immediate impacts on people\u2019s lives. Harvard\u2019s small but formidable linguistics department thrives on its interest in the union of theory and empirical research.\" Read&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/news\/language-out-of-nothing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":16328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YvN-4fk","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/davidson_0517.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16330,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions\/16330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}