Lewisetal2024_LinguisticLaws_Menzerath.zip (939 kB)
Data and code from Lewis et al 2024: Java sparrow song conforms to Mezerath’s Law but not Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation
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posted on 2023-12-12, 18:13 authored by Rebecca N Lewis, Anthony Kwong, Masayo Soma, Selvino R. de Kort, Tucker GilmanTucker GilmanThis code analyses data from Lewis at al. 2023 Animal Behaviour (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.09.012) to assess whether song in the Java sparrow adheres to two laws that govern most human languages: Menzerath's law and Zipf's law of abbreviation
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