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Zebra finches transform manipulated songs with shuffled syllables to exhibit linguistic laws PRIMARY_TEXT
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FETCHED at 2026-09-29T04:31:11Z · https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-026-02058-0?error=cookies_not_supported&code=c384e923-de0d-4eba-a67a-76fd0bc60f3d · seq 25146
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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... |