{"id":73,"date":"2011-02-07T16:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T21:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx340s11\/?p=73"},"modified":"2023-04-29T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:26:28","slug":"reading-for-w-29-language-myths-10-19-optional-macauley-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/2011\/02\/07\/reading-for-w-29-language-myths-10-19-optional-macauley-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading for W 2\/9: Language Myths 10, 19; optional Macauley podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this Wednesday&#8217;s (2\/9), please read chapters 10 and 19 of your <em>Language Myths<\/em> textbook. \u00c2\u00a0Both of these chapters are concerned with the question whether some languages are more complex than others.<\/p>\n<p>As an extra bonus, you might enjoy listening to the podcast entitled &#8220;There are no primitive languages&#8221; from Monica Macauley (a linguist at University of Wisconsin-Madison), which addresses the same issues. \u00c2\u00a0A link to the podcast can be found on the following webpage:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mendota.english.wisc.edu\/~awanner\/podcasts\/podcasts.htm\">http:\/\/mendota.english.wisc.edu\/~awanner\/podcasts\/podcasts.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this Wednesday&#8217;s (2\/9), please read chapters 10 and 19 of your Language Myths textbook. \u00c2\u00a0Both of these chapters are concerned with the question whether some languages are more complex than others. As an extra bonus, you might enjoy listening to the podcast entitled &#8220;There are no primitive languages&#8221; from Monica Macauley (a linguist at &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/2011\/02\/07\/reading-for-w-29-language-myths-10-19-optional-macauley-podcast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Reading for W 2\/9: Language Myths 10, 19; optional Macauley podcast&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}