Language Acquisition Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• pidgin : highly simplified communicative system that arises when adult speakers who share no common language need to communicate with each other
• aphasia : partial or total inability either to convey ideas in language or to understand language, as a result of damage to the brain, whether from injury or disease
• spoonerism : exchange of (usually initial) sounds in a series of two or more words, such as "let me sew you to your sheet," usually to humorous effect
• parentese : version of language that adults (including non parents) use when talking to young children
• malapropism : verbal slip in which a similar word is substituted for an intended one, as when a speaker says that someone "is the very pineapple of politeness," when she means 'pinnacle'.
• dyslexia : learning disorder in which recognizing and comprehending written words is relatively difficult
• lateralization : distribution of a function, such as speech, to the right or left hemisphere of the brain
• reduplication : word-formative process in which morphemes (or rhymes of morphemes) are repeated, such as 'boo boo', 'hanky-panky', or 'car car', as in "did you buy a car car or an suv?"
• creole : full-fledged language developed from a pidgin that has become the natural language of a speech community once children are born into it and develop the pidgin in the expected course of language acquisition
• preservation : verbal slip in which an earlier sound is also accidentally retained in a later position in a word or phrase, as in 'big bilch' for 'big belch'