Question: What place, founded in 1908, did a study on inherently funny words?

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Combinatorics on words: Combinatorics on words is a fairly new field of mathematics, branching from combinatorics, which focuses on the study of words and formal languages.  The subject looks at letters or symbols, and the sequences they form.  Combinatorics on words affects various areas of mathematical study, including algebra and computer science.  There have been a wide range of contributions to the field.  Some of the first work was on square-free words by Thue in the early 1900s.  He and colleagues observed patterns within words and tried to explain them.  As time went on, combinatorics on words became useful in the study of algorithms and coding.  It led to developments in abstract algebra and answering open questions.

Avi Nardia: Avi Nardia (Hebrew: אבי נרדיה‎ ‎ ) is a Martial Artist and he is the Founder of KAPAP Israeli Krav Maga, ], a hand to hand combat system that includes elements of Lotar (Lohama Be terror - Anti Terror units style), ], Krav (IDF - Israeli Army Hand to Hand Program), Hagana Atzmit (Self Defense - Defensive Tactic - Israeli Operational Police Academy Hand to Hand program.)  His wide martial arts experiences include: holding Black Belts in several Traditional Martial Arts styles with life-long training in many leading martial arts styles and Budo such as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor with a Black Belt under Machado RCJ, Kendo (6th Dan with Study under Kubo Akira), Iaido (5th Dan) and Jodo (5th Dan) teacher, Kyudo (4th Dan) teacher, Judo (3rd Dan) and Japanese Jiu-Jitsu instructor (7th Dan Most Senior Teacher with Kyoshi rank under Patrick McCarthy), Karate KU and Goju Ryu (Under Leon Pantanowitz, and Tadano Tomiyaki & Patrick McCarthy 6th Dan) Thai Box instructor.  Avi also spent 8 years living and studying Martial Arts such as Uchi Deshi (living student) and devoted his life to the study of Martial Arts as his words reflect here - "Always student, sometimes teacher" and has tried to roll his life-experiences and knowledge into Reality Training as his words reflect here - "Better to be a student of reality than a master of Illusion."  Adding to his varied study is also sports study: Avi is certified in sport study as an Olympic fencing coach, Athletic trainer and Sport Therapist and Fitness coach and also has different sports certifications including rappelling.

Morphology (linguistics): In linguistics, morphology ( ) is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.  It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words, such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.  Morphology also looks at parts of speech, intonation and stress, and the ways context can change a word's pronunciation and meaning.  Morphology differs from morphological typology, which is the classification of languages based on their use of words and lexicology, which is the study of words and how they make up a language's vocabulary.

University of Alberta: The University of Alberta (also known as U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president.  Its enabling legislation is the "Post-secondary Learning Act."

Landscape archaeology: Landscape archaeology is the study of the ways in which people in the past constructed and used the environment around them.  Landscape archaeology is inherently multidisciplinary in its approach to the study of culture, and is used by pre-historical, classic, and historic archaeologists.  The key feature that distinguishes landscape archaeology from other archaeological approaches to sites is that there is an explicit emphasis on the sites' relationships between material culture, human alteration of land/cultural modifications to landscape, and the natural environment.  The study of landscape archaeology (also sometimes referred to as the archaeology of the cultural landscape) has evolved to include how landscapes were used to create and reinforce social inequality and to announce one's social status to the community at large.

Michael Rowbotham: Michael Rowbotham is a political and economic writer and commentator based in the UK who is primarily known for his two books, "The Grip of Death: A Study of Modern Money, Debt Slavery, and Destructive Economics" (1998) and "Goodbye America" (2000).  "The Grip of Death: A Study of Modern Money, Debt Slavery, and Destructive Economics" focuses on what he believes to be inequities in the practice of fractional reserve banking (which he equates with counterfeiting) and the economic distortions he believes to be inherent in the so-called debt-based monetary system which almost all nations utilise in the modern age.  In "Goodbye America" Rowbotham argues that Third World debt is immoral, invalid, and inherently unrepayable.  He argues that this 'unjust' debt should be canceled immediately.

Inherently funny word: Certain words have been suggested to be inherently funny.  Vaudeville tradition holds that words with the letter "k" are funny.  A 2015 study at the University of Alberta suggested that the humor of certain nonsense words can be explained by whether they seem rude or not and by the property of entropy – the improbability of certain letters being used together in a word.  The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer posited that humor is a product of one's expectations being violated.

Academic Word List: The Academic Word List (AWL) was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.  The list contains 570 semantic fields which were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts.  The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English (the General Service List), thus many of the words are specific to academic contexts.  However, a significant percentage of the vocabulary contained within the AWL is of general use; it is simply not of high enough frequency to be contained within the General Service List.  Words such as "area", "approach", "create", "similar", and "occur", for example, are in sublist one, yet are words which one could expect to encounter in everyday life, in newspapers, on television, etc.  The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers (especially teachers of English as a Second Language) as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at colleges and universities.

Didaskalogenic: There are two types of misconceptions that people have about the world, particularly the world as understood by science.  There are common working (common sense) assumptions that contradict the conclusions of scientific study, such as the concept of impetus .  On the other hand, there are misconceptions that emerge (or are installed) through the course of formal instruction - we can be termed didaskalogenic (born through teaching).  Both the content associated with a particular subject, and its implications, are influenced by mode of instruction used to present it.  Instructional strategies range from the Socratic to the passive lecture format.  Given their inherently abstract nature, many scientific concepts, such as Newton's laws of motion directly conflict a "working" and immediate understanding of the world.  Where this is the case, such conceptual conflicts can give rise to serious obstacles to students' acceptance and understanding of scientific ideas.  In contrast, a wide range of other scientific ideas, assumptions, and concepts are not obviously related to practical experience.  Students' misconceptions about these more abstract scientific ideas, for example, the atomic theory, the wave–particle nature of light, the cell theory of biological organization and continuity, and various aspects of modern evolutionary theory are often grounded in, and influenced by past instruction.  In analogy to physician-induced (iatrogenic) disease (iatrogenesis), didaskologenic (or didaktikogenic) (from the Greek "dáskalos" for "teacher") ideas (and misconceptions) arise from and are reinforced during the course of instruction.  Particularly in the more abstract sciences, where many ideas are inherently counter-intuitive, didaskologenic scientific misconceptions often arise through the use of inappropriate analogies in the course of instruction.

Hawaiian studies: Hawaiian studies is an academic discipline dedicated to the study of Hawaiians.  It evolved in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional disciplines such as anthropology, history, English language, ethnology, Asian Studies, and orientalism were imbued with an inherently eurocentric perspective.  Ethnic Studies has mostly been a study of minority settler cultures although Hawaiian Studies shares with Ethnic Studies attempts to remedy problems with other academic disciplines by trying to study Hawaiian culture and people on their own terms, in their own language, acknowledging their own values.

Supporting paragraphs: Inherently funny word University of Alberta
Answer: University of Alberta