The reason why dogs can understand human speech

The reason why dogs can understand human speech needs to be analyzed from two perspectives, one is from the perspective of human speaking, and the other is from the perspective of dog listening. From a different perspective, when humans ask dogs to do a certain thing or action, humans often use the words or nouns defined by humans to do the thing or action as the first language signal to ask the dog to do it.

The perspective of what humans say to dogs:

What we tell dogs is only our own experience of previous language learning intentions. It is our actual behavior of human language and designation. Corresponding memory; from the perspective of dog listening, when we say this to the dog for the first time, after the dog hears it, the brain has no idea what we want it to do, so even if we say it repeatedly to the dog "Go and get the box on the table" many times, but the dog still won't do the behavior of "go and get the box on the opposite table" in the end because there is no experience record of any actual behavioral learning of this sentence in its brain. Therefore, it cannot understand what it is going to do just from the sound signal of the sentence spoken by the person.

The perspective of dogs listening to humans:

Dog learning is based on the principle of conditioned reflexes. The owner can continue to experiment further based on this experimental principle, and can immediately understand that people are talking to dogs. When it is young, through training, it can remember the voice command of "sit down", which corresponds to the posture of its forelimbs upright, hind limbs bent, and buttocks on the ground. When its memory is stable, no matter what tone the owner uses or the words "sit down" "The sound length of " is lengthened or shortened. As long as the word "sit" is said, the dog will complete the action of landing on its buttocks. But if we use the same intonation or the same sound length, the dog will say "go". "Let's go" or the word "lie down", at this time, the dog will hesitate for a moment and will not complete the action in the end.

Result analysis:

Humans think that dogs can understand what they say, but this is an artificial instruction set during the training process. If it is trained to "sit down" "If you use the "go" command from the beginning, then after the dog's conditioned reflex, when you say "sit" to it again, the dog must not know to complete the action of touching its buttocks to the ground. Only when you say the word "go" can he perform the "sit" posture with his buttocks on the ground. This experiment can intuitively illustrate that dogs can accurately distinguish the different tones of different human words by distinguishing each Differences in the timbre signals of different words to recall previous behavioral experiences, and its acceptance of human language is only to this extent that it has no ability to imagine behaviors that it has never experienced through human language.
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