{"id":720733,"date":"2022-04-07T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=720733"},"modified":"2022-04-07T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T20:19:47","slug":"can-artificial-intelligence-reveal-why-languages-change-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=720733","title":{"rendered":"Can artificial intelligence reveal why languages change over time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Sign Language (ASL) signs that are challenging to perceive &#8212; those that are rare or have uncommon handshapes &#8212; are made closer to the signer&#8217;s face, where people often look during sign perception. By contrast, common ones, and those with more routine handshapes, are made further away from the face, in the perceiver&#8217;s peripheral vision. The findings suggest that ASL has evolved to be easier for people to recognize signs.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2022\/04\/220407161947.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Can artificial intelligence reveal why languages change over time?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Sign Language (ASL) signs that are challenging to perceive &#8212; those that are rare or have uncommon handshapes &#8212; are made closer to the signer&#8217;s face, where people often&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}