Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

Research co-led by Hebrew University expert on language learning suggests such patterns might also shape sounds made by other ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

We had a particularly great week for new research findings, in my opinion. I mean, stories like a 2% improvement in a ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle outlined in Zipf’s law Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent All human ...

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...

Researchers have discovered that humpback whales and humans have something fundamental in common: Their songs, like our ...