After establishing dogs have the capacity to detect what they call "speech naturalness," the researchers proceeded to test if the dogs could understand the difference between Spanish and Hungarian.

In addition to speech detection, dog brains could also distinguish between Spanish and Hungarian. These language-specific activity patterns were found in another brain region, the secondary ...

Countless times per day and without even realizing it, our ears pick up both music and speech. In turn, our brains help us tell the difference between the song of the summer or a friend telling us ...

Dogs don't speak a human language, but they do know when you switch from one tongue to another, an intriguing new study finds. "We know that people, even preverbal human infants, notice the ...

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) ... These terms are interchangeable—there’s no difference between a speech pathologist and a speech therapist.

MRI scans revealed that dogs' brains can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar languages, making them the first-known, and so far only, non-human animals to be able to tell the difference ...