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By Ryan Menezes Published: February 10th, 2024
By Ryan Menezes Published: February 10th, 2024
This is part II of my notes on the “Ideophones and non-lexical vocalisations” workshop. Part I is here. Order at all…
Door Lucas…
Accompanying the new 10 Years of Research in the Media Collection, PLOS ONE Associate Editor, Nicola Stead discusses some of…
Note: I prepared this posting in August 2015, when PLOS ONE was due to publish a paper by us and I wanted to make sure they’d…
The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize prizes were just announced, and with research ranging from bee sting pain measurements to the…
Como todos los años, os presento el listado de ganadores de los premios Ig Nobel. El año 2015 es el 25 aniversario de la…
Guru…
The folks at Improbable Research hosted the 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony on September 17 in Cambridge. (It…
The year’s IgNobel Awards were held on September 17, and rewarded research that defines a kind of excellence that still impacts…
The year’s IgNobel Awards were held on September 17, and rewarded research that defines a kind of excellence that still impacts…
iStockphoto The demands of communication put constraints on how everyone talks, regardless of what…
Improbable…
Two apparent human truths: Everybody gets confused, and everybody expresses that confusion in a similar way. A team of Dutch…
It’s the science that makes you laugh, and then makes you think. It’s a tradition not nearly as established as the Nobel awards…
Nadszedł ten moment roku, kiedy na prawo i lewo zaczynają rozdawane być nagrody. Nawiasem mówiąc, w tym roku po raz pierwszy od…
CRONACA – Ieri sera nell’Aula magna dell’Università di Harvard, davanti a 1.200 persone che avevano pure pagato il biglietto…
Max-Planck-Sprachwissenschaftler aus Nijmegen erhalten in diesem Jahr den Ig-Nobelpreis für Literatur - Er ehrt…
By Justin Crockett Published: November 18th, 2014
The Best YouTube Video is an occasional series where Motherboard searches for the best YouTube video ever made, usually on…
Six months ago a linguistic factoid made global headlines: ‘huh?’ is a universal word. The New York Times described it as “the…
Many of you are probably already aware of the Edge 2014 question: what scientific ideas are ready for retirement? The question…
Image Credit: Yutaka…
This month, medical topics dominated our High Five list. Some papers that received the most attention came from the New England…
The role of rural–urban migration in the structural transformation of Africa. Law reviews in everything: the Drake Journal of…
«Hä?». Zwei Forscher vom Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik im holländischen Nijmegen haben den Ausruf in zehn Sprachen…
From NPR's 13.7 Cosmos and Culture blog, philosopher Alva Noë reports on a new study that suggests there is, indeed, a word…
Listen to people say "huh?" in ten different languages. Via Youtube A new study claims to have identified a universal word…
Efforts to introduce a universal language—think Solresol, Esperanto and Volapuk—have thus far failed. But one useful little…
Der Post zum Sonntag kommt heute mit geballter Informations– und Unterhaltungsdichte auf dem Gebiet der Namen-, Pergament– und…
"Is 'Huh?' a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items is a new paper in…
This is pretty cool stuff to keep in mind the next time you're staggering all over the streets of Helsinki, trying to get some…
This is pretty cool stuff to keep in mind the next time you're staggering all over the streets of Helsinki, trying to get some…
It is universally appropriate to respond to news of this study by saying aloud the word “huh”, a close reading of the study…
Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, and N.J. Enfield, “Is ‘Huh?’ a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the…
A paper in PLOS ONE this week argues that “Huh?”, as in “What did you say?”, is a universal word with the same form and…