Therefore, they suggest that a more ancient brain function exists in both dogs and human that has been exploited to link arbitrary sound sequences to meanings. (aaas.org)
«To find that dogs have a very similar neural mechanism to tell apart meaningful words from meaningless sound sequences is, I think, really amazing.» (wkms.org)
The way we group notes within continuous sound sequences is determined by the iambic - trochaic law (ITL), whereby we tend to pair sounds of varying intensity or pitch into trochees and those of different duration into iambs. (sciencedaily.com)