2026-04-13T07:00:47Zhttps://recercat.cat/oai/requestoai:recercat.cat:2117/3991672026-01-21T06:24:03Zcom_2072_1033col_2072_452950
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Ferrer Cancho, Ramon
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Lusseau, David
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McCowan, Brenda
2022-06
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.RFC was funded by the grants 2014SGR 890 (MACDA) from AGAUR (Generalitat de Catalunya) and also the APCOM project (TIN2014-57226-P) from MINECO (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad).Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version)
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Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural
Mathematical linguistics
Dolphins
Information theory
Linguistic laws
Quantitative linguistics
Lingüística matemàtica
Dofins
Informació, Teoria de la
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