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Show Notes
Whales and humans might be worlds apart, but when it comes to how we structure our sounds, we’re surprisingly alike.
In a new study, psychologist Inbal Arnon and her team found that humpback whale songs follow a core rule of human language known as Zipf’s law—a statistical pattern that predicts how often we use certain words.
Guest: Professor Inbal Arnon - Linguist and Developmental Psycholinguist in the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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