Bibliography on laws of language outside human language.

Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & Hernández-Fernández, A. (2012). The failure of the law of brevity in two New World primates. Statistical caveats. Glottotheory 4 (1), in press.
[ preprint ]

Bezerra, B. M., Souto, A. S., Radford, A.N. & Jones, G. (2011). Brevity is not always a virtue in primate communication. Biology Letters 7, 23-25.
[ doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0455 ]

Semple, S., Hsu, M.J. & Agoramoorthy, G. (2010). Efficiency of coding in macaque vocal communication. Biology Letters 6, 469-471.
[ doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.1062 ]

Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & Lusseau, D. (2009). Efficient coding in dolphin surface behavioral patterns. Complexity 14 (5), 23-25.
[ doi: 10.1002/cplx.20266 ]

Hailman, J. (1987). Constraints on the structure of combinatorial 'chick-a-dee' calls. Ethology 75, 62-80.

Hailman, J. P., Ficken, M. S. & Ficken, R. W. (1985). The ‘chick-a-dee’ calls of Parus atricapillus: a recombinant system of animal communication compared with written English. Semiotica 56, 191–224.

Ficken, M. S., Hailman, J. P., & Ficken, R. W. (1978). A model of repetitive behaviour illustrated by chickadee calling. Animal Behaviour 26 (2), 630-631.
[ doi: 10.1016/0003-3472(78)90075-1 ]

Li, W. (2012). Menzerath’s law at the gene-exon level in the human genome, in press.
[ doi: 10.1002/cplx.20398 ]

Baixeries, J., Hernández-Fernández, A., Forns, N. & Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. (2012). Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes.
[ e-print ]

Baixeries, J., Hernández-Fernández, A. & Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. (2012). Random models of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes. BioSystems 107 (3), 167–173.
[ doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2011.11.010 ]

Hernández-Fernández, A., Baixeries, J., Forns, N. & Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. (2011). Size of the whole versus number of parts in genomes. Entropy 13 (8), 1465-1480.
[ doi: 10.3390/e13081465 ]

Solé, R. V. (2010). Genome size, self-organization and DNA's dark matter. Complexity 16 (1), 20-23.
[ doi: 10.1002/cplx.20326 ]

Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & Forns, N. (2009). The self-organization of genomes. Complexity 15 (5), 34-36.
[ doi: 10.1002/cplx.20296 ]

Wilde, J. & Schwibbe, M. H. (1989). Organizationsformen von Erbinformation Im Hinblick auf die Menzerathsche Regel, G. Altmann, M.H. Schwibbe, Editors, Das Menzerathsche Gesetz in informationsverarbeitenden Systemen, Olms, Hildesheim (1989), pp. 92–107.

The largest public bibliography of references on Zipf's law can be found here.
In this section, we plan to offer a selection of references on Zipf's law on animal behavior and maybe also genomes.

Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & McCowan, B. (2012). The span of correlations in dolphin whistle sequences. Journal of Statistical Mechanics.
[ e-print ]

Doyle, L. R., McCowan, B., Johnston, S. & Hanser, S. F. (2011). Information theory, animal communication, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Acta Astronautica 68 (3-4), 406-417.
[ doi: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.018 ]

McCowan, B., Doyle, L. R., Jenkins, J. & Hanser, S. F. (2005) The appropriate use of Zipf’s law in animal communication studies. Animal Behaviour 69, F1-F7.
[ doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.09.002 ]

Suzuki, R., Buck, J. R. & Tyack, P.L. (2005). The use of Zipf's law in animal communication. Animal Behaviour 69, F9-F17.
[ doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.08.004 ]

McCowan, B., Doyle, L. R. & Hanser, S. F. (2002). Using information theory to assess the diversity, complexity and development of communicative repertoires. Journal of Comparative Psychology 116, 166-172.
[ doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.116.2.166 ]

McCowan, B., Hanser, S. F. & Doyle, L. R. (1999). Quantitative tools for comparing animal communication systems: information theory applied to bottlenose dolphin whistle repertoires. Animal Behaviour 57, 409-419.
[ doi: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1000 ]

Ficken, M. S., Hailman, E. D. & Hailman, J. P. (1994). The chick-adee call system of the Mexican chickadee. Condor 96, 70–82.

Hailman, J. P. (1994). Constrained permutation in ‘chick-a-dee’-like calls of the black-lored tit, Parus xanthogenys. Bioacoustics, 6, 33–50.

Hailman, J. P., Ficken, M. S. & Ficken, R. W. (1985). The ‘chick-a-dee’ calls of Parus atricapillus: a recombinant system of animal communication compared with written English. Semiotica 56, 191–224.

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