Keith E. Nelson- The Pennsylvania State University, Anne van Kleeck- The University of Texas at Austin

• Bootstrapping Operations in Child Language 2. Fathers, Siblings, and the Bridge Hypothesis 3. Situational Variability in Mother-Child Conversations 4. Why Routines Are Different: Toward a Multiple-Factors Model of the Relation between Input and Language Acquisition 5. Conversation and Language Learning in the Classroom 6. Temporal Characteristics of Maternal Verbal Styles 7. The Phonology of Parent-Child Speech 8. A Comparison of Initial Consonant Acquisition in English and Quiche 9. Early Semantic Developments and Their Relationship to Object Permanence, Means-Ends Understanding, and Categorization 10. Comprehending Concrete Metaphors: Developing an Understanding of Topic-Vehicle Interaction 11. Order of Acquisition in the Lexicon: Implications from Japanese Numeral Classifiers 12. Children’s Overgeneralizations of the English Dative Alternation 13. Some Observations from the Perspective of the Rare Event Cognitive Comparison Theory of Language Acquisition