Read the report on an interesting study with a border collie dog called Gable at:
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/67658-dogs-learn-language-differently-from-humans .
"The study sheds further light on language abilities in other species and how they communicate with humans. The researchers believe that how word-knowledge is developed in dogs and how it works in reference to objects is fundamentally different to these processes in humans. The idea that dogs learn words in a very different way to us could advance our understanding of how languages first developed in humans."
Can you find the sentence in the text that shows in what way, exactly, dogs seem to learn language differently to humans? (Answer below).
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Answer: "However, when dogs are learning the name of a new object, researchers found that they associate the word to the object based first on its size and secondly on its texture, rather than on its shape."
And what about the smell? Of all things, this should be the most interesting feature of an object to dogs.
ReplyDeletePerhaps smell is not so important when dogs are learning words.
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