The “Law of Brevity” in animal communication: Sex‐specific signaling optimization is determined by call amplitude rather than duration
Abstract The efficiency of informational transfer is one of the key aspects of any communication system. The informational coding economy of human languages is often demonstrated by their almost universal fit to Zipf's “Law of Brevity,” expressing negative relationship between word length and i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Evolution Letters |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.147 |