Human language and dolphin movement patterns show similarities in brevity
Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 09:35
in Psychology & Sociology
Two researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom have shown for the first time that the law of brevity in human language, according to which the most frequently-used words tend to be the shortest, also extends to other animal species.