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@article{Ferrer2022a,

title = {Parallels of human language in the behavior of bottlenose dolphins},

author = {R. Ferrer-i-Cancho and D. Lusseau and B. McCowan},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01661},

doi = {10.2478/lf-2022-0002},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Linguistic Frontiers},

volume = {5},

number = {1},

pages = {5-11},

abstract = {Dolphins exhibit striking similarities with humans. Here we review them with the help of quantitative linguistics and information theory. Various statistical laws of language that are well-known in quantitative linguistics, i.e. Zipf’s law for word frequencies, the law of meaning distribution, the law of abbreviation and Menzerath’s law, have been found in dolphin vocal or gestural behavior. The information theory of these laws suggests that humans and dolphins share cost-cutting principles of organization.},

keywords = {Law of meaning distribution, Meaning-frequency law, Menzerath-Altmann law, theory construction, Zipf\'s law for word frequencies, Zipf\'s law of abbreviation},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}