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Lucy R. Malpas

Manchester Metropolitan University

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Animal Behavior & CognitionPLoS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewedAug 13, 2025

Does Zipf's law of abbreviation shape birdsong?

Robert Tucker Gilman, CD Durrant, Lucy R. Malpas, Rebecca N. Lewis

This paper examines Zipf's law of abbreviation in birdsong using a new method and finds weak trends consistent with the law in most populations, but weaker correlations compared to human languages.

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