Valerie Fridland, Ph.D., is a professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author of Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good and Bad English.
Researchers have been trying to determine whether liars—and truth-tellers—have certain linguistic "tells." Is there such a thing as a linguistic lie detector?
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