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Across
  1. 1. Type of vocabulary that children understand before they can speak
  2. 4. Early type of speech using only essential words, like “want cookie”
  3. 5. Theory that language ability is biologically hardwired
  4. 7. Smallest meaningful unit of speech
  5. 10. View that language develops through imitation and reinforcement
  6. 11. Rules for combining words into grammatically correct sentences
  7. 12. Psychologist who proposed that humans have an innate capacity for language
Down
  1. 2. Simplified speech that develops between groups without a common language
  2. 3. Brain’s ability to change and adapt in response to experience
  3. 6. Meaning of words and sentences
  4. 8. Repetitive consonant–vowel sounds produced by infants
  5. 9. Gestural system invented by deaf children without exposure to sign language