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

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

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

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

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

Research has revealed a previously undetected ‘language-like structure’ in whale song that was thought to be unique to human ...

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

While listening to spoken language, people need to link abstract knowledge of grammar to the words they actually hear. Theories on how people build grammatical structure in real time are often ...

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

Notably, only certain types of dependencies contribute to the overall minimization trend, highlighting the complexity of language structure and the need for a nuanced understanding of how ...