{"id":1510,"date":"2008-03-21T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2008-03-21T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T16:49:11","slug":"the-complex-origins-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"The complex origins of language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I enjoyed Roy Jacobsen&#8217;s comments<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/rmjacobsen.squarespace.com\/\">on a speech by Christine Kenneally<\/a> at the Writers USA Conference in Portland.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the interesting things about language is that it\u2019s not a single ability, but rather a suite of abilities. We\u2019re all born with this innate suite, but the ability to speak seems to develop only if we are spoken to; it does not arise spontaneously on its own. Thus, if we learn to speak only because we are spoken to, how did language arise?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating subject, with profound philosophical and theological implications, I think. The power of speaking, and the significance of the word, are part of the very architecture of biblical thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed Roy Jacobsen&#8217;s comments on a speech by Christine Kenneally at the Writers USA Conference in Portland. One of the interesting things about language is that it\u2019s not a single ability, but rather a suite of abilities. We\u2019re all born with this innate suite, but the ability to speak seems to develop only if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The complex origins of language<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}