Theories of language acquisition

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Across
  1. 1. Explained as one of the most important children’s systems to copy adult speech.
  2. 3. One of the mechanisms the child uses when interpreting language rules.
  3. 5. Phenomenom developed by children by the age of 18 months in which it is not necessary to the object to now its existence
  4. 9. Skill primarily developed when the child hears his/her parents’ speech and interprets what it means
  5. 11. language formed by the contact of different languages
  6. 12. Chomsky American theoretical linguist that proposed all human beings have a predisposition to learn languages as a cognitive capacity.
  7. 13. Form of a language that is improved and transformed into a full language
  8. 14. Theory that pays special attention to the contact between children and parents and the influence of it in the language acquisition process.
  9. 15. Type of reinforcement used to punish or cause the extinction of an undesirable behavior
  10. 16. type of language with the same fuction of spoken language
  11. 17. Term created by Bruner in response to Chomsky’s theory in which changes in parents’ speech when talking to babies support their language development
  12. 19. natural faculty for language acquisition
Down
  1. 2. When a rule is applied by children without any exception. Walk= walked so drink=drinked
  2. 4. Stages of development that children have to go through their language acquisition process
  3. 6. Theory proposed by Skinner in which the individual is conditioned by the exposure to certain stimuli and the reactions to it.
  4. 7. Adjective given to errors made by children like over-applying rules.
  5. 8. Mechanism used to increase the occurrence of a behavior
  6. 10. Value related to honesty associated with parents’ education role in verbal reinforcement
  7. 18. Brain area involved in speech functions