All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

For Seyi Vibez, the success of 'Different Pattern' boldly communicates his ability to make songs that pack cultural richness and musicality to attract varying classes of listeners as expected of a ...

Zebra finches’ songs share a lot of patterns with human speech. Do they have a common biological ancestry? Raina Fan/McGill University Human languages might be a distant cousin of bird songs, with the ...

Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song. In all known human languages there is a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in ...