Humpback whales read people’s speech

The English language is full of beautiful words from Autemone and Aurora to Zenith and “Zodiac”.

But these are words on a special occasion, writing and the conversation are less sprinkled. The words in the heaviest rotation are short and the world. The most common words in English, the most common words in English, the most common word in English, the second most common word (“English in English) is used the most common third word (” and “) As often as it continues in this example.

Now the international, interdisciplinary team of scientists found Follow the same rule known as the intricate songs, ZIPF law, which can spread from one population to another.

Scientists fade away from the war that the whale is not equal to human. However, the findings argue that the structural features of vocal communication forms transmitted in complex and civilized can be common.

“We look forward to being easy to learn,” he said. The results were broadcast on Thursday.

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Linguist George Kingsley Zipf is called Zipf’s Zipf Law, the frequency of a word in any language is proportional to its rank.

There is still a significant discussion of why this pattern is available and how much it makes it. But some studies show that such skewed word distribution can make language to learn.

Because they help teach these words distributions, scientists can expect similar samples in other complex, cultural communication systems. “And the Maha’s song is a great place to look” Said inbal Arnon is the author of language acquisition and new work at the Hebrew University.

Read a long, perfect song, which consists of different sounds of men’s Humpback Whales, repetitive phrases and topics. All male whales in a particular Humbback population are reading the same song, but this song is developing over time – sometimes gradually and Sometimes all of them at once.

“We have song revolutions, and when this is a song from a neighboring population,” he said. “So the type of song converts and then captures completely.”

How this happens remains a mystery and the whale song researchers face a problem that human language researchers do not: they are not native speakers.

Thus, the first problems of scientists were divided into meaningful parts, “literally” and identified the places where the other begins. To do this, they used the quantitative approach to human babies. Babies offer basic statistical justifications to determine discrete words in the resistant flow of human speech; The syllables that occur together are likely to be part of the same word.

Researchers have been eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years in eight years. Then, often they identified the “subsequent places” of the sounds that occurred together – as a short birth whistle followed by a dwarf – and a word may be approximately analogy.

Researchers, this next is the frequency used by the laws of the following thermal. For example, in 2010, the most common sequence in the most common sequence in the most common sequence in the most common most common most common sequence appeared in the most common sequence, the most common sequence. The next later subsequent parties were shorter than those who were rare.

People and Humpback whales are not closely linked and the ball of the whale, Dr. Garland, does not carry the same semantics of human language. However, both communication systems are culturally studied in society and are transmitted to generations. “Thus, this really shows the important role of learning and transfer in the formation of the structure,” he said.

A marine biologist Shane Gero, who did not participate in the study, said he found “delicate” and convincing work. The results, the laws of human communication are the probability that the laws of the language of communication can actually have a wider biological principles, he said.

“If you know enough and learn enough and long enough, it’s really interesting,” said Dr., who was a scientist living at Carleton University. Gero. “We look deeper at any time and listen longer, we find interesting complexity.”

Indeed, the next step is to determine whether the phenomenon does not extend to other animals with similar communication systems.

“These statistics should find a consistent signal in any cultural transmission system,” Dr. said Arnon. “So we have to look, see, we look at the songbirds, perhaps, maybe look.”

With findings another paper 11 types of species produced by dolphins and whales were broadcast this week, which followed one of the rules of efficiency observed in the human language. The rule known as the law of Menzerath’s, said it will be a longer sequence and the shorter of individual components; For example, long sentences are prone to shorter words.

The work published in Science in Science on Wednesday, which documented the same pattern, including the same patterns, including melodic songs; sperm whales, Which issue is the congestion sequenceButtlenous dolphins known and known with fitnesses.

“Regardless of their vocalizations, they are all trying to communicate as effective as they can,” said Mason Youngblood, the author of a postordoreal researcher and education at Stony Brook University.

Documented example in birds and inhuman primates can develop as a way to reduce communication costs.

“It is very difficult to learn things like a bird song and a whale song,” said Dr. Youngblood. “And then it’s very energetic when you sing. Therefore, you would expect that the communication systems will develop to cut these costs anywhere.”