Language Acquisition Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. The process of transferring a skill from adult to child and then withdrawing support once the skill has been mastered
  2. 5. The last question word children acquire (to do with time)
  3. 6. A feature of Halliday’s functions of speech used when learning about the environment
  4. 7. A feature of a child’s language where the word used to label something is ‘stretched’ to include things that aren’t normally part of that word’s meaning
  5. 10. The first word class children use
  6. 11. Name of the theorists who believed that children acquire language through imitation and reinforcement
  7. 12. Surname of theorist who identified 3 stages of negative formations
Down
  1. 1. The name of Piaget’s language acquisition theory
  2. 2. A common phonological error
  3. 3. Name of the theorists who believed that humans have an inbuilt capacity to acquire language
  4. 4. An invented word that has a consistent meaning
  5. 8. A feature of Dore’s language function used when a child is asking for something to be done for them
  6. 9. A feature of Child Directed Speech used by parents to expand a child’s vocabulary
  7. 12. Surname of the theorist who conducted the ‘wug’ test