All Human Languages Mysteriously Obey Zipf's Law Of Abbreviation. It Applies To Bird Songs Too.
All Human Languages Mysteriously Obey Zipf's Law Of Abbreviation. It Applies To Bird Songs Too.Almost all human languages follow Zipf's law of abbreviation – and it turns out, so do bird songs. This strange observation shows how many systems, not just human language, are guided by an unwritten, surprisingly consistent mathematical order.The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign...