Publication: Inter-call intervals, but not call durations, adhere to Menzerath’s Law in the submissive vocal bouts of meerkats
Inter-call intervals, but not call durations, adhere to Menzerath’s Law in the submissive vocal bouts of meerkats
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Watson, S. K., Zali, M., Falk, N., Widmer, P., & Manser, M. B. (2024). Inter-call intervals, but not call durations, adhere to Menzerath’s Law in the submissive vocal bouts of meerkats. Royal Society Open Science, 11, 241351. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241351
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Diverse information encoding systems, including human language, the vocal and gestural systems of non-human animals and the structure of DNA and proteins, have been found to conform to ‘Menzerath’s Law’—a negative relationship between the number of units composing a sequence, and the size of those units. Here, we test for the presence of Menzerath’s Law in the vocal bouts produced in a submissive context by meerkats (Suricata suricatta). Using a suite of Bayesian mixed effects models, we examined 1676 vocal bouts produced by 89 wild m
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Watson, S. K., Zali, M., Falk, N., Widmer, P., & Manser, M. B. (2024). Inter-call intervals, but not call durations, adhere to Menzerath’s Law in the submissive vocal bouts of meerkats. Royal Society Open Science, 11, 241351. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241351
