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Brevity is not a universal in animal communication: evidence for compression depends on the unit of analysis in small ape vocalizations

Evidence for compression, or minimization of code length, has been found across biological systems from genomes to human language and music. Two linguistic laws—Menzerath's Law (which states that longer sequences consist of shorter constituents) and Zipf's Law of abbreviation (a negative r...

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Autores principales: Clink, Dena J., Ahmad, Abdul Hamid, Klinck, Holger
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32431905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200151