Becky Award
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The Becky Award is an honor given out by Language Log, a prestigious organization of professional linguistics who run one of the leading blogs on language. The award is named after the sixteenth-century humanist, Johannes Goropius Becanus, who claimed to have proved that the language of Eden was Flemish, incidentally his mother tongue.
The award for 2006 went to Louann Brizendine for her work, the bestselling book The Female Brain, which makes two main points: women use language in very different ways than men, and the causes of these differences are neurological. Linguists argue that each of these statements contradicts scientific evidence. [1]
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- "2006 Becky Award", January 3, 2007. Language Hat [2]
- Nurnberg, Geoffrey. "The Language of Eve", Fresh Air, National Public Radio, January 3, 2007. [3]
