Do domestic dogs learn words based on humans' referential behaviour?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Tempelmann, Sebastian ^a,b,c   Kaminski, Juliane ^a,b   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOMESTIC DOG; FEMALE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PILOT STUDY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; DOG; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COMMUNICATION; CUES; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84898617988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091014     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Pepperberg IM (1981) Functional vocalizations by an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus). Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 55: 139-160.
2. Herman LM, Richards DG, Wolz JP (1984) Comprehension of sentences by bottlenosed dolphins. Cognition 16: 129-219.
3. Savage-Rumbaugh S, McDonald K, Sevcik RA, Hopkins WD, Rubert E (1986)Spontaneous symbol acquisition and communicative use by pygmy chimpanzees(Pan paniscus). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 115: 211-235.
4. Savage-Rumbaugh E (1986) Ape language: From conditioned response to symbol. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. xxv, 433 p.
5. Schusterman RJ, Krieger K (1986) Artificial language comprehension and sizetransposition by a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus). Journal of Comparative Psychology 100: 348-355.
6. Coppinger R, Coppinger L (2001) Dogs: A startling New Understanding of Canine origin, Behavior and Evolution. New York: Scribner.
7. Hare B, Tomasello M (2005) Human-like social skills in dogs? Trends in Cognitive Sciences: 439-444.
8. Pilley J, Reid A (2011) Border collie comprehends object names as verbal referents. Behavioural Processes 86: 184-195.
9. Kaminski J, Call J, Fischer J (2004) Word learning in a domestic dog: Evidencefor "fast mapping". Science 304: 1682-1683. (Pubitemid 38765862)
10. Carey S, Bartlett E (1978) Acquiring a single new word. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 15: 17-29.
11. Heibeck TH, Markman EM (1987) Word learning in children: An examination of fast mapping. Child Development 58: 1021-1034.
12. Markson L, Bloom P (1997) Evidence against a dedicated system for wordlearning in children. Nature 385: 813-815. (Pubitemid 27106069)
13. Bloom P (2004) Can a dog learn a word? Science 304: 1605-1606.
14. Markman EM, Abelev M (2004) Word learning in dogs? Trends in CognitiveSciences 8: 479-481. (Pubitemid 39387840)
15. Baldwin DA (1991) Infants' contribution to the achievement of joint reference. Child Development 62: 875-890.
16. Baldwin DA (1993) Infants' ability to consult the speaker for clues to word reference. Journal of Child Language 20: 395-418.
17. Tomasello M, Barton ME (1994) Learning words in nonostensive contexts.Developmental Psychology 30: 639-650.
18. Baldwin DA, Markman EM, Bill B, Desjardins RN, Irwin JM (1996) Infants' reliance on a social criterion for establishing word-object relations. ChildDevelopment 67: 3135-3153. (Pubitemid 126416770)
19. Tomasello M, Barton M (1994) Learning words in non-ostensive contexts.Developmental Psychology 16: 495-552.
20. Tomasello M, Strosberg R, Akhtar N (1996) Eighteen-month-old children learnwords in non-ostensive contexts. Journal of Child Language 23: 157-176. (Pubitemid 126407798)
21. Tomasello M (2001) Perceiving intentions and learning words in the second yearof life. Tomasello, Michael (Ed); Bates, Elizabeth (Ed) (2001) Language development: The essential readings Essential readings in developmental psychology (pp 111-128) vii, 375pp.
22. Tomasello M (2008) Origins of human communication. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
23. Bates E, Benigni L, Bretherton I, Camaioni L, Volterra V (1979) The emergence of symbols: cognition and communication in infancy. New York: Academic Press.
24. Wobber V, Kaminski J (2011) What do dogs understand about human communicative signals? A novel synthesis. Dogs: biology, behavior, and health disorders. new York: Nova Press, 93-110.
25. Bräuer J, Kaminski J, Riedel J, Call J, Tomasello M (2006) Making Inferences About the Location of Hidden Food: Social Dog, Causal Ape. Journal of Comparative Psychology 120: 38-47.
26. Hare B, Brown M, Williamson C, Tomasello M (2002) The domestication ofsocial cognition in dogs. Science 298: 1634-1636.
27. Kirchhofer KC, Zimmermann F, Kaminski J, Tomasello M (2012) Dogs (Canisfamiliaris), but not chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), understand imperative pointing. PLOs one 7: e30913.
28. Miklosi A, Kubinyi E, Topal J, Gacsi M, Viranyi Z, et al. (2003) A simple reasonfor a big difference: Wolves do not look back at humans, but dogs do. CurrentBiology [print] 13: 763-766. (Pubitemid 36531025)
29. Riedel J, Schumann K, Kaminski J, Call J, Tomasello M (2008) The early ontogeny of human-dog communication. Animal Behaviour 75: 1003-1014.
30. Virányi Z, Gácsi M, Kubinyi E, Topál J, Belényi B, et al. (2008) Comprehension of human pointing gestures in young human-reared wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris). Animal Cognition 11: 373-387.
31. Udell M, Dorey N, Wynne C (2008) Wolves out perform dogs in following human social cues. Animal Behaviour 76: 1767-1773.
32. Hare B, Rosati A, Kaminski J, Bräuer J, Call J, et al. (2010) The domestication hypothesis for dogs' skills with human communication: a response to Udell et al. (2008) and Wynne et al. (2008) Animal Behaviour 79: e1-e6.
33. Kaminski J, Schulz L, Tomasello M (2012) How dogs know when communication is intended for them. Developmental Science.
34. Kaminski J, Tempelmann S, Call J, Tomasello M (2009) Domestic dogs comprehend human communication with iconic signs. Developmental Science12: 831-837.
35. Kaminski J, Fischer J, Call J, Cognition A (2008) Prospective object search in dogs: mixed evidence for knowledge of What and Where. Animal Cognition 11:367-371.
36. Grassmann S, Kaminski J, Tomasello M (2012) How two word-trained dogs integrate pointing and naming. Animal Cognition: 1-9.
37. Manly B (1997) Randomization, Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods in Biology. London: Chapman and Hall.
38. Liszkowski U, Schaefer M, Carpenter M, Tomasello M (2009) Prelinguisticinfants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities. Psychological Science 20: 654.
39. Liszkowski U, Carpenter M, Tomasello M (2007) Reference and attitude ininfant pointing. Journal of Child Language 34: 1-20.
40. Griebel U, Oller D (2012) Vocabulary Learning in a Yorkshire Terrier: Slow Mapping of Spoken Words. PLOs one 7: e30182.
41. Téglás E, Gergely A, Kupán K, Miklósi Á, Topál J (2012) Dogs' gaze following is tuned to human communicative signals. Current Biology.