Exploració per autor "McCowan, Brenda"

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    • A law of word meaning in dolphin whistle types 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; McCowan, Brenda (2009-10-30)
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      We show that dolphin whistle types tend to be used in specific behavioral contexts, which is consistent with the hypothesis that dolphin whistle have some sort of “meaning”. Besides, in some cases, it can be shown that the ...

    • Parallels of human language in the behavior of bottlenose dolphins 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Lusseau, David; McCowan, Brenda (De Gruyter, 2022-06)
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      Dolphins exhibit striking similarities with humans. Here we review them with the help of quantitative linguistics and information theory. Various statistical laws of language that are well-known in quantitative linguistics, ...

    • The span of correlations in dolphin whistle sequences 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; McCowan, Brenda (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2012-06-11)
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      Long-range correlations are found in symbolic sequences from human language, music and DNA. Determining the span of correlations in dolphin whistle sequences is crucial for shedding light on their communicative complexity. ...