“A 2026 Animal Cognition re-analysis found that zebra finches tutored with shuffled-syllable songs produced learned songs showing Menzerath's law and Zipf's rank-frequency law, but only weak support for Zipf's law of abbreviation.”

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Checked in Galedra: score 0.87, mostly supported · not yet reviewed by anyone else “A 2026 Animal Cognition re-analysis found that zebra finches tutored with shuffled-syllable songs produced learned songs showing Menzerath's law and Zipf's rank-frequency law, but only weak support…” https://galedra.org/investigations/01a0eaec-d9a7-791f-bc33-0f4763b97327

“Zebra finches tutored with shuffled-syllable songs produced learned songs exhibiting Menzerath's law and Zipf's rank-frequency law at levels similar to those in human language.”

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“The same re-analysis found only weak support for Zipf's law of abbreviation in the learned zebra-finch songs.”

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