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Can dogs (1).
word they (3)
language? (2)
to them,
animal lovers believe that their doggy friends can understand every
but is this really true? It is more probable that dogs generally understand the way we say things and not the words (4)
we say. So, for example, we
can say "Walkies!' and they get excited, but it's not
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word "Walkies!' that they recognise, it's the lift in our voice-the intonation. We can say another word with the
same intonation and they get excited again! However, there are (6)
words. We can train these dogs to understand a lot of different words. There is one dog in Germany (7)
types of dog that can understand separate
identify over 200 different toys. The owner says the name of (8)
group of toys. This shows that doggy brains can give meaning to language.
can
toy and the dog finds the correct one from a big
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A tell
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C who
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