<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's a new post on<DIV><DIV><A href="www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage">the Web of Language:</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Domo arigato, Dr. Roboto: Researchers prove rats can't understand Japanese backwards. Can you?</DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The 2007 Ig Nobel prize in linguistics has been awarded to three researchers who successfully demonstrated that rats can’t distinguish between Japanese and Dutch sentences played backwards. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The Ig Nobel prizes, co-sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research, are awarded each year for real research shortly before the actual Nobel Prize winners are announced. While this is the first time that a prize has been awarded in linguistics, two earlier prizes in literature have been given for language-related research. John Richards, founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society, won in 2001 for his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between the plural and the possessive. And Daniel Oppenheimer, of Princeton, won in 2006 for his report, “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly.”</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">A write-up of this year’s winning research on rat foreign language backwards sentence recognition appeared in 2005 in the </SPAN></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.apa.org/releases/speech_article.pdf"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#4C2387"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Journal of Experimental Psychology.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> Drs. J. M. Toro, J. B. Trobalon, and N. Sebastian-Galles, cognitive neuroscientists at the Parc Cientific de Barcelona, trained a group of 64 Long-Evans rats to press a lever and receive food when they heard Dutch and Japanese sentences that they had never heard before (remember, these were Spanish-speaking rats). Researchers then played the sentences backwards to see how that affected the rats’ comprehension. They concluded that sixty rats had no idea what was going on (P < .05), while four rats “failed to finish the experiment because of low lever-pressing rates.”</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Read the rest of this post about cutting-edge linguistic research at</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><A href="www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> the Web of Language </SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV></DIV><A href="http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage">www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage</A><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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