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What would a podcast be without language? Perhaps a series of soothing tones? Maybe frog sounds? Wait… that sounds nice…
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Mustached bat sounds and syntax
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7962992/
Heaps Law
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/08/27/heaps-law/
Jackass penguin honks
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0589
https://www.livescience.com/jackass-penguin-linguistic-rules.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jackass-penguin-calls-follow-similar-rules-human-speech-180974139/
https://youtu.be/oTOcJj_NNUg
Speed dating communication
Prairie dog chatter
https://www.prairiedoghoogland.com/vocalizations
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/79/3/887/859259
[Fact Off]
Facebook machine learning of language
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uops-fuc030620.php
Hypothetical spaceship language
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200706145433.htm
https://zenodo.org/record/3747353#.X1j66nlKiJc
[Ask the Science Couch]
Human language efficiency
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/complex-languages/489389/
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594
http://www.ithkuil.net/00_intro.html
Computer languages
https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/compiled-versus-interpreted-languages/
[Butt One More Thing]
Pumpernickel
https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-devilish-origins-of-pumpernickel/