From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations.

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Abstract

Emerging data in a range of non-human animal species have highlighted a latent ability to combine certain pre-existing calls together into larger structures. Currently, however, the quantification of context-specific call combinations has received less attention. This is problematic because animal calls can co-occur with one another simply through chance alone. One common approach applied in language sciences to identify recurrent word combinations is collocation analysis. Through comparing the co-occurrence of two words with how each word combines with other words within a corpus, collocation analysis can highlight above chance, two-word combinations. Here, we demonstrate how this approach can also be applied to non-human animal signal sequences by implementing it on arti

SUBMITTER: Bosshard AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9395491 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature