Your dog may link sounds with shapes, just like you do

October 13, 2026 · 11:01 pm 2 sources

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• Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests
  The Guardian · October 13, 2026 23:01
  Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech sounds If you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don’t start with rote learning vocabulary and grammar, focus on how they sound instead, research suggests. A new study of how…

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• Your dog may link sounds with shapes, just like you do
  Phys.org · October 14, 2026 14:10
  Sounds have shapes. That might sound strange since sound waves are invisible, but a famous psychological experiment in the 1920s showed that our brains naturally link spoken sounds to visual forms. According to new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, dogs may do this too.