{"id":2677,"date":"2011-05-02T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2011-05-02T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T16:52:13","slug":"language-and-the-human-mind-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/05\/02\/language-and-the-human-mind-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Language and the Human Mind - Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The department opened its doors to visitors last Saturday as part of the MIT-wide open house <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mit150.mit.edu\/open-house\">Under the Dome<\/a><\/strong>, and received a steady stream of visitors curious about our contribution, a series of activities under the theme <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mit150.mit.edu\/open-house\/activity\/language-and-human-mind\">Language and the Human Mind<\/a>&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors learned about a number of interesting languages, among them the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/sp11\/24.942\/\">Mayan languages of Central America<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uyghur_language\">Uyghur<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlrp.org\/History.html\">the Wampanoag language<\/a> of the native inhabitants of Massachusetts.  They viewed posters explaining recent research projects our graduate students and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/UROP\/\">UROPs<\/a> have undertaken, stepped into the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/hackl\/www\/lab\/\">Experimental Syntax & Semantics Lab<\/a> to participate in psycholinguistic experiments designed to reveal how language interfaces with the conceptual-intentional systems of the mind, then hunkered down to solve linguistics puzzles about Mayan, with chocolate their reward for correct answers.<\/p>\n<p>A selection of photos from the event (more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/themitcho\/sets\/72157626502121763\/\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5301\/5678021205_ed7bfb583e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Peter Graff discusses Big Brother\"><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/0430111320.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors learning about Uyghur, photo by Jeremy\" title=\"Visitors learning about Uyghur\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_9516.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Coon talks to visitors\" title=\"Jessica Coon talks to visitors\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\"\/>\n<p>Thank you to all who participated in the open house and made it a success!  Thanks also to Adam Albright, Micha Breakstone, Mitcho Erlewine, Jeremy Hartman and Kirill Shklovsky for reports and photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The department opened its doors to visitors last Saturday as part of the MIT-wide open house Under the Dome, and received a steady stream of visitors curious about our contribution, a series of activities under the theme &#8220;Language and the Human Mind&#8221;. Visitors learned about a number of interesting languages, among them the Mayan languages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}