Across
- 5. the arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship.
- 6. smallest unit of speech that distinguishes one utterance from another
- 7. words that give a special characteristic to a noun
- 9. the act of presuming something to be true of all members of a particular class of words.
- 10. we all develop _______ speech as a way to understand the world around us.
Down
- 1. tendency on the part of children to make the language regular, such as using past tenses like -ed for all past-tense verb endings.
- 2. things that stand for or suggest (such as pictures, models, word symbols, and so forth).
- 3. study of how language is used in social context
- 4. the study of the units of meaning in a language
- 6. sound system of a language and how it is represented with an alphabetic code.
- 8. the study of meanings associated with words and the acquisition of vocabulary.