{"id":2626,"date":"2011-04-25T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2011-04-24T21:41:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T01:41:22","slug":"language-and-the-human-mind-at-the-mit-open-house-saturday-april-30-1-4pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/04\/25\/language-and-the-human-mind-at-the-mit-open-house-saturday-april-30-1-4pm\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Language and the Human Mind&#8221; at the MIT Open House (Saturday, 4\/30, 1-4pm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its 150th birthday celebration, MIT will be holding an Open House called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mit150.mit.edu\/open-house\">Under the Dome<\/a><\/strong> on April 30, from 11:00am to 4:00pm.  Even though MIT Linguistics is not located under a dome, strictly speaking - but instead resides in a multi-colored oddly-shaped Gehry-designed thingamajig, we are proud to be an important part of this great event!<\/p>\n<p>Our contribution is called <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mit150.mit.edu\/open-house\/activity\/language-and-human-mind\">Language and the Human Mind<\/a>&#8221;<\/strong>.  From 1:00pm-4:00pm, we will be welcoming the public to <a href=\"http:\/\/whereis.mit.edu\/?go=32\">our department (32-D850)<\/a> for a variety of language-themed activities.  Here&#8217;s the description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We will showcase a variety of examples of research on language and the human mind. Experts on some very interesting languages (such as the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/sp11\/24.942\/\">Mayan languages of Central America<\/a><\/strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlrp.org\/History.html\">Wampanoag language<\/a><\/strong> of the native inhabitants of Massachusetts) will be available to answer your questions about these languages and explain how they differ and do not differ from English.<\/p>\n<p>You can also watch and learn about some <strong>experiments<\/strong> which were designed to reveal the unconscious mechanisms by which people generalize from examples when they learn a language, and by which fluent speakers produce and interpret speech and text.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWe look forward to seeing you, your friends, your friends&#8217; friends, and their families at our Open House!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its 150th birthday celebration, MIT will be holding an Open House called Under the Dome on April 30, from 11:00am to 4:00pm. Even though MIT Linguistics is not located under a dome, strictly speaking - but instead resides in a multi-colored oddly-shaped Gehry-designed thingamajig, we are proud to be an important part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}