Parallels of human language in the behavior of bottlenose dolphins-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Parallels of human language in the behavior of bottlenose dolphins

Published:2022-06-01 Issue:1 Volume:5 Page:5-11
ISSN:2544-6339
Container-title:Linguistic Frontiers
language:en
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Author:

Ferrer-i-Cancho Ramon¹,Lusseau David²³,McCowan Brenda⁴

Affiliation:

1. Complexity and Quantitative Linguistics Lab. LARCA Research Group . Departament de Ciències de la Computació . Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya . Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain .

2. School of Biological Sciences , University of Aberdeen , Aberdeen , UK

3. National Institute of Aquatic Resources , Technical University of Denmark , Lyngby , Denmark .

4. Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine , University of California , Davis , CA , USA .

Abstract

Abstract Dolphins exhibit striking similarities with humans. Here we review them with the help of quantitative linguistics and information theory. Various statistical laws of language that are well-known in quantitative linguistics, i.e. Zipf’s law for word frequencies, the law of meaning distribution, the law of abbreviation and Menzerath’s, law have been found in dolphin vocal or gestural behavior. The information theory of these laws suggests that humans and dolphins share cost-cutting principles of organization.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/lf-2022-0002

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