An exploration of Menzerath's law in wild mountain gorilla vocal sequences

Male gibbon loud morning calls conform to Zipf's law of brevity and Menzerath's law: insights into the origin of human language

(2020) Mingpan Huang et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Do penguins’ vocal sequences conform to linguistic laws?

(2020) Livio Favaro et al.   Biology Letters

Brevity is not a universal in animal communication: evidence for compression depends on the unit of analysis in small ape vocalizations

(2020) Dena J. Clink et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Linguistic laws in chimpanzee gestural communication

(2019) Raphaela Heesen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the physical origin of linguistic laws and lognormality in speech

(2019) Iván G. Torre et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Linguistic Laws in Speech: The Case of Catalan and Spanish

(2019) Antoni Hernández-Fernández et al.   Entropy

Trade-offs in the production of animal vocal sequences: insights from the structure of wild chimpanzee pant hoots

(2017) Pawel Fedurek et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Gelada vocal sequences follow Menzerath’s linguistic law

(2016) Morgan L. Gustison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Energetic responses to variation in food availability in the two mountain gorilla populations (Gorilla beringei beringei)

(2015) Edward Wright et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

The organization of domains in proteins obeys Menzerath-Altmann’s law of language

(2015) Khuram Shahzad et al.   BMC Systems Biology

Proximate mechanisms of contest competition among female Bwindi mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)

(2014) Edward Wright et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Acoustic structure and variation in mountain and western gorilla close calls: a syntactic approach

(2014) Daniela Hedwig et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Brevity is prevalent in bat short-range communication

(2013) Bo Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Segmental concatenation of individual signatures and context cues in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) close calls

(2012) David AWAM Jansen et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Menzerath's law at the gene-exon level in the human genome

(2011) Wentian Li   COMPLEXITY

Size of the Whole versus Number of Parts in Genomes

(2011) Antoni Hernández-Fernández et al.   Entropy

Comparing call-based versus subunit-based methods for categorizing Norwegian killer whale, Orcinus orca, vocalizations

(2010) Ari Daniel Shapiro et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Brevity is not always a virtue in primate communication

(2010) B. M. Bezerra et al.   Biology Letters

Efficient coding in dolphin surface behavioral patterns

(2008) Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho et al.   COMPLEXITY