Some dogs can pick up hundreds of words – do they learn like children?

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ...
The Purdue Exponent

Dogs learn new words by eavesdropping on their owners

Canines have a unique talent for learning a vocabulary of toy names can pick up new words by simply overhearing conversations ...
CNN

Some super-smart dogs can pick up new words just by eavesdropping

Toddlers can pick up new words just by overhearing conversations. Now, new research suggests that some intelligent dogs can expand their vocabulary in just the same way. Children as young as 18 months ...
Nature

Gifted dogs learn new words by overhearing humans

Typical family dogs can understand action words such as ‘sit’, but not words that describe objects. Shany Dror at the ...