Language Aqcuisition.

1. Which theorist said that children have an internal brain mechanism that is pre-programmed with the ability to learn grammatical structures? (4, 7)
5. Which phonological error is where the child omitts the final consonant in words such as 'do(g)' (8)
6. p, t, k sounds are created when the airflow is blocked for a brief time. What type of phoneme is this? (7)
8. Which of Mak Halliday's language functions is used to control someone elses behaviour? (10)
9. Which concept did Jerome Bruner introduce to refer to the ways adults help children advance by using a support system for their language? (11)

2. What is the term used to describe the error that children make when using language they already know to apply to something else such as calling a role of selotape 'the moon'? (13)
3. Which feature of child-directed speech is where the adult repeats themselves but in a different way? (9)
4. A vowel in which there is a perceptible change in quality during a syllable. (8)
7. B.F. Skinner proposed the '?' theory. (12)
10. The stage of language development when the children is able to use one word utterances. (12)

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