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Neural evidence that dogs segment the speech they hear with a humanlike consonant bias Boglárka Morvai (20458538) Kinga G. Tóth (23753043) Marianna Boros (11131284) Dorottya Rácz (20327838) Ivaylo Iotchev (23753058) Kitti Szabó (23753059) Attila Andics (2828813) Computational linguistics Cognitive neuroscience neural entrainment consonant bias statistical learning EEG dog <p dir="ltr">Across many human languages, consonants carry more lexical information than vowels. During speech segmentation, humans, unlike non-human primates, rely more on consonant than vowel patterns, despite vowels’ greater acoustic saliency. To investigate whether this consonant bias is human-unique or could also emerge in other species exposed to human speech we performed non-invasive EEG in humans and dogs. Inter-trial coherence measures of neural entrainment and event-related potentials revealed enhanced word-level tracking for consonant- as compared to vowel-structured streams in both species. This suggests that dogs, like humans, exhibit consonant bias when segmenting the speech they hear. Linguistic regularity-based processing biases can thus also emerge in a non-speaking species exposed to speech.</p> 2026-09-24T18:00:15Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.32051355.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Neural_evidence_that_dogs_segment_the_speech_they_hear_with_a_humanlike_consonant_bias/32051355 CC BY 4.0