{"id":212,"date":"2010-02-11T01:22:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T09:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/?p=212"},"modified":"2010-02-11T01:22:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T09:22:56","slug":"classic-language-evolution-paper-pinker-bloom-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/classic-language-evolution-paper-pinker-bloom-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic language evolution paper: Pinker &#038; Bloom 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is mostly just for fun (it&#8217;s 50 pages long), and out of historical interest as well: This was the paper where Pinker and Bloom were like &#8220;uhhh&#8230;guys&#8230;yes the royal society(or some other academic society?) did place a ban on the subject of evolutionary linguistics&#8230;BUT THAT WAS OVER A CENTURY AGO, AND THINGS HAVE CHANGED! Hello???&#8221; and the response ranged between &#8220;STFU, you&#8217;re nuts&#8221; and &#8220;OMG I&#8217;VE BEEN THINKING THAT ALL ALONG, THANK YOU! =D&#8221;. tl;dr &#8212; this paper was quite important to the development of the field.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">See, when you strip academic discourse of its flowery language, the whole thing degrades to little more than your usual internet flamewar&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de\/~hoole\/kurse\/hs_evolution\/pinkerbloom_bbs_13_4_1990.pdf\">Natural Language and Natural Selection<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; Pinker &amp; Bloom 1990 <em>Behav Sci<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PS: Also, I&#8217;ve met Pinker =P\u00a0\u00a0 Turns out he exudes pure charisma, and his hair <em>is <\/em>real. Yeah, that&#8217;s right, do be jealous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is mostly just for fun (it&#8217;s 50 pages long), and out of historical interest as well: This was the paper where Pinker and Bloom were like &#8220;uhhh&#8230;guys&#8230;yes the royal society(or some other academic society?) did place a ban on the subject of evolutionary linguistics&#8230;BUT THAT WAS OVER A CENTURY AGO, AND THINGS HAVE CHANGED! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7061,568],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extra-readings","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}