{"id":7307,"date":"2015-05-04T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7307"},"modified":"2015-05-03T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T18:02:36","slug":"donca-steriade-searching-for-the-building-blocks-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/05\/04\/donca-steriade-searching-for-the-building-blocks-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Donca Steriade: Searching for the building blocks of language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most comprehensive survey of rhyme ever made reveals a new possibility for one of the essential units of language.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The syllable has long been considered to be the basic building block of language in the area of rhythm. MIT&#8217;s Donca Steriade now believes that a different element \u0097 known as the &#8216;interval&#8217; \u0097 may be the basic unit of rhythm in human language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/shass.mit.edu\/news\/news-2015-donca-steriade-searching-building-blocks-language\">the webiste of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences (SHASS)<\/a>. <\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shass.mit.edu\/files\/shass\/cimg\/news\/2015\/600x375_Donca-Steriadne-3-16-15-JonSachsSHASSCOMM-2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most comprehensive survey of rhyme ever made reveals a new possibility for one of the essential units of language. &#8220;The syllable has long been considered to be the basic building block of language in the area of rhythm. MIT&#8217;s Donca Steriade now believes that a different element \u0097 known as the &#8216;interval&#8217; \u0097 may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7310,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions\/7310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}