The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

Research co-led by Hebrew University expert on language learning suggests such patterns might also shape sounds made by other ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

Biologists found significant blunt-force trauma on the right side of the head of a 3-year-old whale and suspect it was hit by ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...