Could language have evolved from birdsong?
A new paper suggests that human language shares features with both the tweeting of our feathered friends, and the buzzing of bees. How might early humans have combined them to make language?
Linguist Daniel …
Programmer Nigel Leck has written a program that detects arguments against climate change on Twitter, and automatically responds with appropriate information.
The climate deniers are often unaware that they’re not dealing with a human. This is just the latest in …
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Become a Patron!Talk the Talk was a podcast about language that ran on community radio station RTRFM in Perth Australia. It aired on Tuesdays at 11am from about 2009 until early 2020.
Many people took part, but the main crew was Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, Kylie Sturgess, and Hedvig Skirgård.
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