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    Dogs Process Language At The Level of a 2-3 Year-Old Child  To acquire language, kids use a strategy called “fast mapping” — forming quick, rough hypotheses about the meaning of new words after just one or two exposures. So do dogs. Recently, researchers found that a border collie named Rico was able to infer the names of more than 200 items using this method. Four weeks after the initial exposure, Rico was still able to retrieve the items by name. Another border collie in South Carolina has memorized over 1,000 nouns. The dog, Chaser, reportedly loves her vocabulary drills. (via Do Dogs Speak Human? | Think Tank | Big Think)

    Dogs Process Language At The Level of a 2-3 Year-Old Child 

    To acquire language, kids use a strategy called “fast mapping” — forming quick, rough hypotheses about the meaning of new words after just one or two exposures. So do dogs.

    Recently, researchers found that a border collie named Rico was able to infer the names of more than 200 items using this method. Four weeks after the initial exposure, Rico was still able to retrieve the items by name.

    Another border collie in South Carolina has memorized over 1,000 nouns. The dog, Chaser, reportedly loves her vocabulary drills.

    (via Do Dogs Speak Human? | Think Tank | Big Think)

     
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