{"id":20036,"date":"2016-05-31T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=20036"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:42:22","slug":"children-confuse-simple-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2016\/children-confuse-simple-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Children Confuse Simple Words \u2013 Faculty Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Why Children Confuse Simple Words \u2013 Faculty Research\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cognitive Science <\/a>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ics\/people\/singh-raj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raj Singh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Psychology<\/a> Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/deepthi-kamawar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deepthi Kamawar<\/a> and &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton-ca.academia.edu\/AndreaAstleRahim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrea Astle-Rahim<\/a> (Psychology Ph.D) together with a team from MIT <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/why-children-confuse-simple-words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">authored a paper<\/a>&nbsp;on children\u2019s language development, specifically why they confuse simple words. The report will be published in&nbsp;the journal&nbsp;<i>Natural Language Semantics.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary from MIT News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now a study by MIT linguistics professors and a team from Carleton University, based on an experiment with children between the ages of 3 and 6, proposes a new explanation, with a twist: In examining this apparent flaw, the researchers conclude that children deploy a more sophisticated mode of logical analysis than many experts have previously realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more information about the research on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/why-children-confuse-simple-words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MIT News&#8217; website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"photo-credit-mit-news\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Photo Credit: MIT News<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive Science Professor Raj Singh, Psychology Professor Deepthi Kamawar and &nbsp;Andrea Astle-Rahim (Psychology Ph.D) together with a team from MIT authored a paper&nbsp;on children\u2019s language development, specifically why they confuse simple words. The report will be published in&nbsp;the journal&nbsp;Natural Language Semantics. Summary from MIT News Now a study by MIT linguistics professors and a team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[63,50],"tags":[237,238,239,204,240],"class_list":["post-20036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","category-research-2","tag-children","tag-cognitive-science","tag-language","tag-linguistics","tag-psychology"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34159,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20036\/revisions\/34159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}