Thinking Vocabulary Crossword

our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.
in language, the smallest distinctive unit of sound
in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning
in language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language
the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language
the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words
beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in two-­‐word statements
early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting auxiliary words
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think