Language Aqcuisition.

Here is a crossword that is all to do with language aqcuisition. Quite hard.

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G O W Y O A L U S B U P Y G P D J N P
I N N N O A M C H O M S K Y R A O K J
V I N K Y C L N F S T T T N J I P O F
Y Y V M S Y I N K P P U E A S X B E P
B R D T D T F K N B R C U N K F E O U
N O P Q N W E H J R H G E R H H H C U
O T L B M O R A E D C T S Q O W A R H
G A O K Q Y A C Q J X S L L L O V S O
W L S N G G A I E E C U O H F L I W I
V U I G D S Y G R A Y P Y N T K O K K
J G V Q T V N E F T H Q G O F A U P C
U E E I N O V F Q R V X A I Y F R W M
O R N T H O O Y A I E P S T Y U I Y X
Y G R T E L M S L H F Y L E O G S Y M
H Y P M D T T T B I A X W L T V T P G
K I S I B I D J L G W M P E S O B U Y
D E N B C M K Y D O X F O D V D H L N
W G S I M J Y G T U T U E G R K O O R
R W N N X B Y E A T U X O V H C C L N

Clues

  • A vowel in which there is a perceptible change in quality during a syllable. (8)
  • B.F. Skinner proposed the '?' theory. (12)
  • p, t, k sounds are created when the airflow is blocked for a brief time. What type of phoneme is this? (7)
  • The stage of language development when the children is able to use one word utterances. (12)
  • 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)
  • Which concept did Jerome Bruner introduce to refer to the ways adults help children advance by using a support system for their language? (11)
  • Which feature of child-directed speech is where the adult repeats themselves but in a different way? (9)
  • Which of Mak Halliday's language functions is used to control someone elses behaviour? (10)
  • Which phonological error is where the child omitts the final consonant in words such as 'do(g)' (8)
  • Which theorist said that children have an internal brain mechanism that is pre-programmed with the ability to learn grammatical structures? (4, 7)

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