Adherence to Menzerath's Law is the exception (not the rule) in three duetting primate species
Across diverse systems including language, music and genomes, there is a tendency for longer sequences to contain shorter constituents; this phenomenon is known as Menzerath's Law. Whether Menzerath's Law is a universal in biological systems, is the result of compression (wherein shortest...
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The Royal Society
2020-11-01
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.201557 |