Why is "sucking and sucking" a unified way to call a dog in the country?

"Suck and suck", as long as you make these three sounds to a puppy, you will gain a dog running towards you with joy.

In the dog world, "sucking and sucking" has become a unified summoning technique. No matter where the dog is or what kind of breed, they all eat this set. Some netizens have found through practice that "sucking and sucking" is not only effective for domestic dogs, but also foreign dogs react when they hear this sound.

Why are we all used to calling puppies with "sucking and sucking", and can puppies be summoned by this sound?

The exclusive "sucking and sucking"

A hot knowledge: "sucking and sucking" is the "communication language" chosen by humans and dogs.

From a pronunciation perspective, "sucking and sucking" is called the sound of tick, which is click in English. It is classified according to the specific types of sounds. "sucking and sucking" is the sound of ticking and sucking the sound of tick curling tongue, round lips, and sucking. In addition to "sucking and sucking", "sketch tsk" is also a typical tick sound.

Moreover, the tick sound is a unique type of human beings. If people want to use a certain sound to attract the attention of animals, they should use sounds that are obviously different from nature, thereby reflecting the unique characteristics of human beings. The sound of the tick is like this. It is made by the human pronunciation organ, and it is difficult for other animals to consciously make this sound.

From the perspective of pronunciation mechanism, the exact name of "sucking and sucking" or click is the soft palate inward airflow sound. The core physiological mechanism of this sound when pronunciating is that two occlusions are formed at the soft palate and the anterior section of the vocal tract. The air pressure between the two occlusions is reduced due to the movement inside the oral cavity. Then, the anterior section of the vocal tract is quickly removed from the front section of the vocal tract. When removing the resistance, air flow enters the anterior section of the vocal tract from the outside.

Although the pronunciation mechanism of the tick-tick sound is quite special, it is very rare to appear as a phonetic position in the world language, but the pronunciation of the tick-tick sound is not difficult. On the contrary, it is even an extremely easy sound type. Peter Laifuge, a famous American phonologist, once said that the pronunciation mechanism of tick-tick sound is very similar to kissing, and under normal circumstances almost everyone can make this sound, even if they don’t know what tick-tick sound is.

In fact, almost only people can make "sucking and sucking" - this may be because animals pout less consciously and create two blockages in the front part of the harmonious duct in the soft palate of the mouth. In addition, in addition to the difficulty of "sucking and sucking", there is another very important point, that is, this sound needs to be repeated continuously.

The sound of calling the puppy to continue in accordance with a certain regular way of vocalization. A light sound of "suck" is short and fleeting, while "suck" is connected into a group, and the sound has a strong sense of rhythm, just like a metronome, simple and powerful.

It is not too difficult for people to make this sound, and it doesn’t matter if they repeat it many times. The most important thing is that from a practical point of view, calling the puppy is quite good, so I simply “suck and suck” the puppy.

However, it is not difficult for humans to "suck and suck". Can the puppy understand?

The dog world's magic sound "suck"

Generally speaking, puppies do not understand human language, but if a person makes a few ticks while talking, the puppies' ears may quickly stand up and look in the direction of making the sound or in the person.

This can be explained by the famous animal "mental theory" proposed by psychologists Premack and Woodruff, that is, animals have the ability to infer other people's intentions through certain behaviors, and thus respond to these behaviors accordingly.

To put it bluntly, puppies can distinguish which are important information and which are secondary information through their voices, among which the tick-tick sound is "important information".

Multiple studies have shown that the tick-tick sound is very prominent in the sounds emitted by human pronunciation organs and has outstanding perceptual significance, that is, the characteristics are more obvious and easier to be heard and noticed. This is an important reason why "sucking and sucking" can summon puppies. One of the prominent features of

Tapuyin is its strong energy. Peter Laifuge and Ian Madison, famous American phonologists, pointed out that the tick-tick sound may be the most prominent consonant in human language, the most easily recognized and most perceptual sound category, and its energy is very strong. The peak energy of the tick-tick can be more than 6 decibels higher than the adjacent vowels, which makes the tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick Another prominent acoustic characteristic of

Taping sound is their high stability of sound strength. Generally, the intensity of the voice can be changed over a large range by adjusting the airflow strength, while the intensity of the voice of the voice can be adjusted much smaller. There is no vocal cord vibration when pronunciating the tick sound, which makes its energy relatively stable, so its range of change in sound intensity is small.

This stability is important for puppies. The puppy's ability to hear special tones depends on one important factor: the frequency of the sound. The frequency of sound that humans can perceive is about 20Hz to 20000 Hz. The hearing range of dogs is much larger than that of humans, and the hearing sensitivity range is 15Hz to 50,000Hz.

"sucking and sucking" sound, as a high-frequency pulse sound, is located in the high-frequency area within the dog's hearing range, and can cause strong resonance in the dog's auditory system.

In addition, dogs have very sensitive hearing, and their hearing is 16 times that of humans. Usually, people do not easily hear bass 6 meters away, while dogs can hear bass 24 meters away. At the same time, the dog's hearing range is very wide. When the volume is large enough, the dog can hear sounds with low or high frequency, and can clearly distinguish various sounds within a radius of 1,000 meters. So even if we are far away from dogs, they can hear the call of "sucking and sucking".

In addition, human "sucking and sucking" comes from imitating dogs' favorite sounds.

Ma Tsinghua, a professor at the School of Literature of Nanjing University, proposed in "Language Science" that the tick sound of a dog is to imitate the eating sound of his interest. People express their call to him by reproducing the sound of the dog licking and chewing..

roughly means calling it by imitating the sound of a dog eating. In the eyes of the dog, it means that you have something delicious in your hands. After receiving the "instruction", the dog will naturally run towards you impatiently.

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Another point is that "sucking and sucking" can also establish an emotional connection between you and your dog.

The basic function of tick-sound is considered to express a certain emotion and attitude, which includes encouragement, praise or emotion that expresses positive meaning. People are usually friendly and close to puppies when they send out "sucking and sucking" and puppies will feel at ease and trust. Whether the puppies are running over happily or shaking their tails, they are enthusiastic responses to "sucking and sucking".

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After the puppy comes, people will touch and feed. This combines the tick and care. Over time, the puppy will form a conditioned reflex after hearing "sucking and sucking", and will come to you without hesitation. It's like Pavlov's dog, but people have asked the puppies to establish a connection of "sucking and sucking - humans should feed or caress me".

In fact, it is not only "sucking, sucking," but also puppies are sensitive to similar continuous short sounds, such as whistling sounds. Some countries do not use "sucking, sucking, sucking," and other tick-tick sounds similar to "ber ber ber" to summon puppies, with the aim of quickly attracting the puppies' attention in the simplest way.

But there are exceptions in everything. Some dogs are indifferent to "sucking and sucking" and don't be too confused. Perhaps they just simply don't want to pay attention to you.

Reference materials:

[1] Huang Yong, Wu Dehua, Song Zhenhua. Research progress in dog sensory vision, hearing and touch [J]. Jiangsu Agricultural Sciences, 2014, 42 (10): 194-195.

[2] Ran Qibin, Gu Qian. As the call of animal sounds: commonality and law [J]. Language Research, 2016, 36 (02): 1-15.

[3] Ma Tsinghua. On the primitive nature of the relationship between form and meaning of interjection [J]. Language Science, 2011, 10 (05): 482-496.

[4] Ding Houyin, Wang Qiguo. On the "click (absorbing sound)" in Chinese - a discussion with Mr. Li Yanfu [J]. Journal of Lianyungang Vocational and Technical College, 2008 (01): 54-55.

Author: Min Min Zhang Yi

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