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Linguistics
The scientific study of language and its structure.
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- Did the study find any evidence that lawyers deliberately write to obscure meaning?
- How did Chris Moulin's team induce jamais vu experimentally in volunteers?
- How did Eric Martínez's study test whether legal prose structure, rather than vocabulary, causes comprehension difficulty?
- How did Irish police officers come to issue more than fifty traffic citations to a driver who did not exist?
- How did Murphy's Law spread from a press conference remark into common language?
- What did Glenda Browne's paper on the definite article contribute to indexing practice?
- What does it mean to speak fluently backwards, and how does it differ from just reversing a few words?
- What does the name 'argon' mean and why was it chosen?
- What does the word 'holography' literally mean, and why did Gabor choose it?
- What is Holmström's informativeness principle and how does it guide how pay should be tied to performance signals?
- What is a centre-embedded clause, and why does it strain working memory?
- What is jamais vu, and how does it differ from déjà vu?
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- What is the grammatical difference between a plural and a possessive that the society was defending?
- What language was Frédéric Mistral trying to preserve, and why was it disappearing?
- What neurological explanation is offered for semantic satiation, the sense that a repeated word loses its meaning?
- What phonetic shape does the word for 'huh?' tend to take across unrelated languages?
- What problem does the word 'the' create for professional indexers?
- What was the @ symbol commonly used for before it became part of email addresses?
- What was the mission of John Richards's Apostrophe Protection Society?
- Where does the word 'chromatography' come from?
- Where does the word 'isotope' come from, and what does it literally mean?
- Where does the word 'isotope' come from, and what does it mean?
- Why did Richards eventually dissolve the society after twenty-three years?
- Why did Singer choose to deliver his Nobel address in both Yiddish and English?
- Why was Seferis's choice to write in demotic Greek a significant act at the time?
- Why would unrelated languages independently converge on a similar sound for a repair word?
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- First networked email sent over ARPANET
- Ig Nobel Prize in Communication
- Ig Nobel Prize in Engineering
- Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
- Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
- Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
- Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
- Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
- Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
- Mikhail Tsvet develops and names chromatography
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Nobel Prize in Literature