Everyone lies.
But what is lying? And can you tell when someone’s doing it? Researchers are using computers to catch us in the act.
Linguist Daniel Midgley tells the whole truth on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Show notes
Are Melburnians mangling the language?
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/04/20/are-melburnians-mangling-language
What are mergers? A slide presentation
http://www.bu.edu/isle/files/2011/07/Warren-Maguire-Lynn-Clark-Kevin-Watson-What-are-mergers.pdf
The pin-pen merger
http://dialectblog.com/2011/04/17/pin-pen-merger/
The cot-caught merger
http://dialectblog.com/2011/03/08/the-cot-caught-merger/
Mergers, with maps
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/maps/Map1.html
Explainer: Why has the word genocide become such a controversial term?
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/04/24/explainer-why-has-word-genocide-become-such-controversial-term
Germany Close to Recognizing Armenian Massacres as Genocide
http://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-close-to-recognizing-armenian-massacres-as-genocide-1429872387
Obama should say “genocide” when he talks about what happened to Armenians
http://qz.com/390847/its-embarrassing-that-obama-wont-say-genocide-when-talking-about-armenia/
Press Release : FA Minister Julie Bishop: “Events Of 1915 Are Not ‘Genocide’”
http://www.ata-a.org.au/press-release-fa-minister-julie-bishop-events-of-1915-are-not-genocide/
Robertson urges Australia to recognise Armenian ‘genocide’
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/04/24/robertson-urges-australia-recognise-armenian-genocide
The Truth About Lie Detection in Ancient and Modern Times
http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/truth-about-lie-detection-ancient-and-modern-times-002125
How does a lie detector (polygraph) work?
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question123.htm
Mythbusters: Beat A Lie Detection Test
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/beat-lie-detection-test/
There’s no evidence that polygraphs work.
http://skepdic.com/polygrap.html
How to Pass a Lie Detector Test (Whether You’re Lying or Not)
http://www.livescience.com/33512-pass-lie-detector-polygraph.html
Jeff Hancock’s TED talk
http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_hancock_3_types_of_digital_lies
Mihalcea & Strapparava (2009). The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language (PDF)
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P09/P09-2078.pdf
Feng et al. (2012). Syntactic Stylometry for Deception Detection (PDF)
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P12-2034
Elkins et al. (2012). The Voice and Eye Gaze Behavior of an Imposter: Automated Interviewing and Detection for Rapid Screening at the Border
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-0408
The two words lie are completely unrelated. Words can converge.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=lie
Etymology of ‘lest’
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=lest
Howard Manns: Lest we forget lest: Anzac and the language of remembrance
http://monash.edu/news/show/lest-we-forget-lest-anzac-and-the-language-of-remembrance
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