They found that recurring elements in whale songs follow a Zipfian distribution, much like human language. “This work shows how learning and cultural transmission can shape the structure of ...

We discovered that the same Zipfian pattern universally found across human languages also occurs in whale song. This complex signalling system, like human language, is culturally learned by each ...

Whale song is more similar to human language than previously thought, research has found. The study, led by the University of St Andrews, revealed a previously undetected “language-like ...

Whales have fascinated people for centuries. Now, scientists have discovered that humpback whales produce songs with some structure that looks a lot like how humans organize language. These findings ...

This Spanish oldie by an Argentinian musical group called Apurimac, featuring Greek singer Elli Paspala, is living proof that there indeed are thousands of Greek words in every language. Apurimac ...

Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song. In all known human languages there is a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in ...

But a groundbreaking new study has uncovered something even more astonishing—these marine giants may structure their songs in a way that mirrors human language. Researchers analysing years of whale ...

Because a word that long is not what human language favours. According to experts, we tend toward efficiency and brevity — with statistical laws that persist across cultures. Perhaps now, even across ...

Whale song is more similar to human language than previously thought, research has found. The study, led by the University of St Andrews, revealed a previously undetected “language-like ...

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