There is evidence that dogs can use the mutual exclusivity constraint. Two other word-learning constraints are the whole-object constraint and the taxonomic constraint.
Design one or more experiments testing whether dogs can use these constraints as well, and justify the choice of your experimental design. If there are aspects of these constraints you find difficult to test experimentally in non-human animals, describe what the difficulties are compared to the human experiments that have explored these topics. If you need to design preliminary experiments (e.g., to understand how your animal of choice understands categories), please describe these experiments as well.
