{"id":690351,"date":"2021-05-17T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690351"},"modified":"2021-05-17T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:00:40","slug":"new-study-finds-that-iconicity-in-parents-speech-helps-children-learn-new-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690351","title":{"rendered":"New study finds that iconicity in parents&#039; speech helps children learn new words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some words sound like what they mean. For example, &#8220;slurp&#8221; sounds like the noise we make when we drink from a cup, and &#8220;teeny&#8221; sounds like something that is very small. This resemblance between how a word sounds and what it means is known as iconicity.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-05-iconicity-parents-speech-children-words.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">New study finds that iconicity in parents&#8217; speech helps children learn new words<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some words sound like what they mean. For example, &#8220;slurp&#8221; sounds like the noise we make when we drink from a cup, and &#8220;teeny&#8221; sounds like something that is very&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}