What’s the relationship between climate and sound?
A linguist has released a trio of papers showing that the sounds we use may be influenced by the air we breathe.
Is there anything to it? How have other scientists reacted? And how does an idea change minds?
Daniel, Ben, and Kylie talk with Caleb Everett on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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A wide-ranging chat with Chris Butler about language, air, swearing, and nipples.
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The complete interview with Caleb Everett, discussing his work in geophonetics, and the nature of science communication.
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The Talk the Talk team wants to #sharethelove this Radiothon. Ben and Kylie give their best memory tips.
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Show notes
Sequence Memory Constraints Give Rise to Language-Like Structure through Iterated Learning
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0168532
Everett: Languages in Drier Climates Use Fewer Vowels
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01285/full
Oxford Dictionaries: On the radar: broflake
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/07/on-the-radar-broflake/
Urban Dictionary: broflake
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Broflake
Micro-Generation Born Between 1977-1983 Given New Name
https://www.sammichespsychmeds.com/micro-generation-born-between-1977-1983-are-given-new-name/
Sarah Stankorb: I Made Up Xennial 3 Years Ago, So Why Is a Professor in Australia Getting All the Credit?
http://www.vogue.com/article/what-is-a-xennial-definition-attribution
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