{"id":598,"date":"2009-05-27T23:47:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T21:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sprogmuseet.dk\/?p=598"},"modified":"2009-05-27T23:47:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T21:47:50","slug":"nominees-and-candidates-for-ig-nobel-prizes-in-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sprogmuseet.schwa.dk\/index.php\/2009\/05\/27\/nominees-and-candidates-for-ig-nobel-prizes-in-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominees and candidates for Ig Nobel prizes in linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Maskinovers\u00e6ttelse til dansk her<\/a>]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>In an earlier message we wrote about the Ig Nobel prizes, and the five prizes awarded to linguistic research in the first 18 years of their existence. A mere 2,7 percent of winners have been chosen from the noble science of linguistics. Here are some more nominees. Readers are urged to propose additional candidates and studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Peace Price:<\/span><\/h3>\n

Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Sudre<\/em> for inventing the Langue Musicale Universelle (Solresol)<\/em><\/a>, a language based on the seven-scale tone system. With these tones, he formed a vocabulary of 2600 roots. Whereas other artificial languages discriminated the deaf and blind, Solresol was easily expanded to colours, tactile signs and rhythms, providing a truly international language (see Mikael Parkvall\u2019s book Limits of Language<\/em>, pages 132-133).<\/span><\/p>\n

(2) Computer science:<\/span><\/h3>\n

Michael Levit, Richard Huber, Anton Batliner, Elmar Noeth<\/em>. (Chair for Pattern Recognition, University of Erlangen, Germany). “Use of prosodic speech characteristics for automated detection of alcohol intoxication<\/a>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

(3) Cognitive Science:<\/span><\/h3>\n

Lieberman P., Protopapas A, ; Kanki B.G..<\/em> \u201cSpeech production and cognitive deficits on Mt. Everest<\/a>\u201d. Some of the results: \u201cDeficits in speech motor control and in the comprehension of syntax were observed as five members of the 1993 American Sagarmatha Expedition ascended Mt. Everest. We analyzed speech recordings and cognitive test scores of the climbers at different altitudes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

(4) Chemistry:<\/span><\/h3>\n

Watch out, there are two scholars with the name Edo Nyland<\/em> in Canada. One, a natural scientist, has a warning sign on his website<\/a> that he does not have anything to do with the other one. The other one is the nominee Edo Nyland<\/a><\/em> for proving that Basque provides the key to understanding all the world\u2019s languages. The English word begin<\/em> is actually derived from a string of Basque words found in a dictionary: ibeni egindura inor<\/em> \u201cstart action someone\u201d. His revolutionary method has thus far not attracted a huge congregation of followers. His method is so revolutionary that old-fashioned, brain-washed linguists cannot fathom it. And here<\/a> you can read that the author of this item is not enlightened yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

(5) Biology:<\/span><\/h3>\n

Sarah Grey Thomason<\/a><\/em> for providing the definite proof that people have no memory for languages spoken in previous lives, in the article in American Speech <\/em>and here<\/a>.
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(6) Engineering<\/span><\/h3>\n

David B. Pisoni<\/span><\/em> & Christopher S. Martin<\/em>. 1991. “Effects of alcohol on speech: I. Durations of isolated words, sentences, and passages in fluent speech.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.<\/em> 90 (4): 2311-2311.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

(7) Law<\/span><\/h3>\n

Reinhold Amman<\/em> for publishing the journal Maledicta<\/em><\/a> through several decades. It is the only scientific journal completely devoted to swearing, inappropriate and politically incorrect jokes, ethnic slurs, insults, etc. Not even a prison sentence and personal bankruptcy stopped him from continuing.<\/span><\/p>\n

(8) Ornithology<\/span><\/h3>\n

Rupert Sheldrake<\/em> for his proof<\/a> that parrots do not only understand human language, but that they also understand human words through telepathy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Maskinovers\u00e6ttelse til dansk her] In an earlier message we wrote about the Ig Nobel prizes, and the five prizes awarded to linguistic research in the first 18 years of their existence. A mere 2,7 percent of winners have been chosen from the noble science of linguistics. Here are some more nominees. Readers are urged to… L\u00e6s mere Nominees and candidates for Ig Nobel prizes in linguistics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1256,1271,1736,2077,2367,2640],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjov","tag-ig-nobel","tag-in-english","tag-linguistics","tag-nobel","tag-priser","tag-sjov","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprogmuseet.schwa.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprogmuseet.schwa.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprogmuseet.schwa.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprogmuseet.schwa.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprogmuseet.schwa.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sprogmuseet.schwa.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprogmuseet.schwa.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprogmuseet.schwa.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprogmuseet.schwa.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}