Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds

PHYSorg
Feb 8, 2025, 12:00 pm169 pts
All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is known as Zipf's law.

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