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