Could dogs ever learn something like speech? A new review explores the science behind enhancing canine communication.

The Nature of Things explores how dogs might be using human language with the help of buttons on a soundboard.

Dogs are capable of forming two-word combinations when using a soundboard to communicate with humans, a groundbreaking study has found. In the last few years, thousands of dogs have been trained to ...

Some gifted canines pick up words simply by overhearing people speak to each other without needing to be taught ...

Everybody knows that dogs can learn to associate specific spoken words with objects that look a certain way. A groundbreaking new study, however, shows that some gifted dogs can also match given ...

If you've ever had to spell out words like W-A-L-K or T-R-E-A-T around a dog, you know that some dogs listen in to humans' chitchat and can pick out certain key words. Well, it turns out that some ...