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