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Neural Evidence That Dogs Parse Human Speech With a Humanlike Consonant Bias
Key Takeaways
- A paper in Science reports neural evidence that dogs segment heard speech with a humanlike consonant bias.
- The consonant bias is the tendency to weight consonants more heavily than vowels when distinguishing and parsing words.
- The result is notable because the bias has often been explained as a byproduct of possessing a large human lexicon.
- The study appears in Science, Volume 393, Issue 6818, pages 1354-1358, September 2026.
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