A law of word meaning in dolphin whistle types

Entropy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 688-701

  Ferrer i Cancho, Ramon ^a   McCowan, Brenda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Dolphin whistles; Laws of language; Quantitative linguistics; Semantics; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953488685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e11040688     Document Type: Article

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