54: Slang (with Jonathon Green)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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Are They Recombining Sounds?
Researchers took 900 hours of calls from chimps who were used to having humans around. They broke all of the utterances into 390 unique sequences. Out of 58 bi-grams, that is two vocalizations in a row like bark pant, 14 of them were produced above chance. It's not all just smushed together equally likely random.
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