Language Acquisition Terms

1. Syntactic errors made by young children in which the non-standard utterance reveals some understanding, though incomplete, of standard syntax. (8, 5)
6. Errors made by children when reading. (6)
7. A vowel in which there is a perceptible change in quality during a syllable. (9)
9. The human brain’s inbuilt capacity to acquire language. (3)

2. A single word expressing a whole idea. (10)
3. Those who believe that language is acquired through imitation and reinforcement. (13)
4. A feature of a child’s language where the word used to label something is ‘stretched’ to include things that aren’t normally part of that word’s meaning. (13)
5. A graphic unit in which two symbols combine, or any sequence of two letters produced as a single sound, e.g. ‘sh’. (7)
8. An invented word that has a consistent meaning. (9)
10. The commenting on, extending and rephrasing of a child’s utterance. (6)

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