18.2903, Media: Linguistics Ig Nobel Prize

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Subject: 18.2903, Media: Linguistics Ig Nobel Prize

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Date: 04-Oct-2007
From: Peter Hendriks < peter.hendriks at anu.edu.au >
Subject: Linguistics Ig Nobel Prize

 

	
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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:47:46
From: Peter Hendriks [peter.hendriks at anu.edu.au]
Subject: Linguistics Ig Nobel Prize
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>From the BBC news item on the 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7026150.stm

'Linguistics - A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are
unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards
and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.'

As one does.

Peter Hendriks 


Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable





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