Dog Might Provide Clues on How Language Is Acquired

January 19, 2011

Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg, S.C., has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 nouns, a record that displays unexpected depths of the canine mind and may help explain how children acquire language…

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18dog.html?_r=2&hpw