Across
- 4. Being direct and honest when talking
- 5. Applying rules to words that are exceptions from the rule
- 6. Talking out of anger or fear
- 9. Word endings like -ing,-ed,-s
- 10. Adults speaking slowly and with exaggerated changes in pitch and loudness
- 15. The ability to remember speech sounds briefly
- 16. Refers to the communicative functions of language and the rules that lead to effective communication
- 17. Vocabulary is mainly words that name things
- 19. Sentences consisting of only 2 words
- 20. Defining a word too narrowly
- 21. System that relates sounds and gestures to meaning.
Down
- 1. The pattern of rising or falling pitch
- 2. Children being born knowing that nouns refer to people/objects and verbs refer to actions
- 3. Engaging in conversation
- 5. Defining a word too broadly
- 7. Unique sounds that can be joined to create words
- 8. When children learn a lot of new words quickly
- 11. Vocabulary includes mainly social phrases
- 12. Refers to the sounds of a language
- 13. Refers to the rules that specify how words are combined to form sentences
- 14. Denotes the study of words and their meaning
- 18. Children quickly connecting words to meanings