Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds
- Written by Jenny Allen, Postdoctoral research associate, Griffith University
A humpback whale mother and calf on the New Caledonian breeding grounds.
Mark QuintinAll known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is known as Zipf’s law.
Researchers have hunted for evidence...





