The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm ...
Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own ...
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 ...
CETI’s previous scientific findings, aided by artificial intelligence, have already revealed a strikingly intricate system of ...
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Study finds sperm whale clicks share key patterns seen in human speech
When linguists want to tell one vowel from another, they measure the peaks of acoustic energy that the human vocal tract ...
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Scientists Found Human Speech-Like Patterns in Sperm Whale Clicks
The eye of a sperm whale. (Mike Korostelev/Moment/Getty Images) The staccato clicks of sperm whales may sound like ...
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Study finds sperm whale clicks follow speech-like patterns and rules
Somewhere in the deep waters off Dominica, a female sperm whale fires a rapid burst of clicks toward her companions. The ...
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