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New findings between biologists and linguists in inter-species communication -

Zipf?s law is a linguistic study that shows that virtually all languages from Chinese characters to Arabic characters and human words and alphabetic symbols and so on all produce this balance between diversity and repetition. COOMBS: Simply put, Zipf?s law means that the most common sound.... Although the sounds may vary from language to language, the patterns of sound distribution always remain the same. To Doyle?s surprise, this same distribution of sound seems to occur with dolphin whistles.

Scientists recently found that dolphins learn to speak in a way very similar to human babies. Babies make 869 different sounds and tones. As they acquire language, they eventually use only the 45 sounds that make up adult language. This happens in every culture. It also happens in dolphin communities.

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