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Zebra finches transform manipulated songs with shuffled syllables to exhibit linguistic laws PRIMARY_TEXT

Animal Cognition · 2026-03-18 · no page hash: the reader saw a rendering, not the bytes · created seq 21701

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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...verbatim — the passage is on the page, character for character
In this re-analysis of experimental data from James and Sakata (Current Biology 27:3676–3682, 2017), I assessed whether zebra finches tutored with songs with...verbatim — the passage is on the page, character for character

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QUOTE {}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.
QUOTE {}In this re-analysis of experimental data from James and Sakata (Current Biology 27:3676–3682, 2017), I assessed whether zebra finches tutored with songs with shuffled syllables, where each syllable type is equally common and songs have e...

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