TCU communication professor Andrew Ledbetter analyzed Taylor Swift’s lyrics to uncover surprising connections between her ...

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 ...

The Auk, Vol. 99, No. 2 (Apr., 1982), pp. 208-229 (22 pages) I investigated variation in the songs of Sage Sparrows (Amphispiza belli) breeding in the northwestern Great Basin over a 3-yr period.

Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

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 ...

Kelsea Ballerini is set to release her latest project, the six-song EP Mount Pleasant, on Nov. 14. Ballerini will preview the ...

Kelsea Ballerini is adding five new songs to the tracklist of her Patterns album. The singer announced on Thursday morning (Feb. 27) that she's issuing a deluxe version of the project, which will ...