A key discovery was that whale song follows Zipf’s Law—a principle in human language where the most frequently used words appear roughly twice as often as the second-most common words, three times as ...

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

The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

JERUSALEM, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- An international study, led by Israeli and British researchers, has found that whale song has a structure similar to human language, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

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