Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

All known human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song.

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

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

"Using insights and methods from how babies learn language allowed us to discover previously undetected structure in whale ...

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There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little ...

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

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A key discovery was that whale song follows Zipf’s Law—a principle in human language where the most frequently used words ...