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The excerpt directly characterizes support for Zipf’s law of abbreviation in learned songs as weak. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Zebra finches transform manipulated songs with shuffled syllables to exhibit linguistic laws · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:e9c955b366086153b6d6139ab3c42dce0e0b90e3c15badadd04892db95235e9a

Menzerath’s law and Zipf’s rank-frequency law are present in the learned songs to a similar extent as in human language, while there is only weak support for Zipf’s law of abbreviation.