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Note: the largest public bibliography of references on Zipf’s law for word frequencies is available here. Here we only offer a selection of references on Zipf’s law on animal behavior and organic chemistry.


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2026

Youngblood, Mason

Zebra finches transform manipulated songs with shuffled syllables to exhibit linguistic laws Journal Article

In: Animal Cognition, 2026.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Menzerath-Altmann law, Zipf's law of abbreviation, Zipf's rank-frequency law