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A Dogs Understanding Of Words Or Lack Thereof
from:Trained dogs can easily distinguish dozens of different words of human speech. It is always a temptation to believe that they actually understand what these words mean, yet given the nature of their own communication system, the odds seem strongly against it.
Dogs have come to associate certain sounds with certain actions, but those associations are often extremely dependent upon other contextual cues that we may not be aware of. One way to show this is to try giving a dog a familiar command over an intercom. Even a command that the dog is highly motivated to carry out is often ignored unless it is accompanied by some additional cues in our body language.
Indeed, for all of the many continuities that link humans with nonhuman animals, one of the great discontinuities is the way we use language. Human infants, almost as soon as they begin to learn the names of things, take a manifest pleasure in using the name for its own sake. They will point to an object and say what it is not because they want it, but for no other reason than to share the pleasure of calling the attention of another human mind to it. Even language trained animals, such as chimpanzees, that have been taught to create "sentences" with computer symbols or sign language expend something very close to 100 percent of their utterances on demands for food, toys, or attention. There is no evidence that they have an independent notion of the symbols as standing for concepts. They have, rather, learned to manipulate series of symbols to get results. Dogs have certainly learned to look at us, or come, when we speak their name, but there is not a scrap of evidence that they grasp the notion that their name is their name, in the sense that it stands for or represents them.
Given all that, however, it certainly seems odd that dogs can distinguish words in human language. Studies by Russian speech scientists found that dogs can readily be trained to distinguish the vowels a and i produced by an audio synthesizer; even when the base pitch of the vowels was changed, the dogs had no trouble telling the two apart.
Dogs may often be confused by substitutions of one consonant for another try saying "Fly clown" instead of "Lie down," and your dog will probably react exactly the same. But the ability to distinguish vowels depends on rather precise analysis or the higher pitched resonances that accompany their base pitch. Dogs do not utter vowels themselves; why should they be able to tell them apart when we say them?
The simple and general explanation for this happy circumstance is that ears are older than speech. Mammalian ears have been around for tens of millions of years, and the ears of all mammals have much in common. Human speech, however, has been around for only 100,000 years or so, and the human vocal tract is a unique and late development. Only humans possess the vocal apparatus needed to generate the sounds of speech.
Dog Walking Tips For The Busy City
Donand#39;t Leave Your Puppy Unattended: One mistake that can prove quite disastrous is an owner leaving a puppy tethered outside while going into a cafe to buy a cup of coffee or into a store to buy a few groceries How long does it take to steal a car On the average it takes a good thief twenty to forty seconds Think how much faster someone can steal your puppy And it is even more tempting for thie.....More on Dog Toys Companies
Advice For Your Visit To The Dog Shelter
So your off to get your new puppy from one of the local shelters that you have on your list However, before you zoom off to those places, please vow to yourself (and make the rest of your family vow, too, if theyand#39;re coming along) that these will be look but donand#39;t touch visits This isnand#39;t the part of the search where you fall hopelessly in love with a puppy or dog, brush aside your better judgmen.....More on Dog Toys Companies
Are You Encouraging Your Dog To Bite
At no time is it okay for your dog to put her teeth on any part of a human body Nipping and mouthing are not acceptable, not even from little puppies Remember that puppy teeth may not hurt very much, but theyand#39;ll soon fall out and be replaced with adult ones that will So donand#39;t ever encourage your dog to nibble or teethe on you, and donand#39;t play games that encourage her to nip at you Teach your sm.....More on Dog Toys Companies
A Dogs Understanding Of Words Or Lack Thereof
Trained dogs can easily distinguish dozens of different words of human speech It is always a temptation to believe that they actually understand what these words mean, yet given the nature of their own communication system, the odds seem strongly against it Dogs have come to associate certain sounds with certain actions, but those associations are often extremely dependent upon other conte.....More on Dog Toys Companies
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