• Contents: Preface. Y. Levy, Introduction. Part I: General Theoretical Issues.N. Hyams, Nondiscreteness and Variation in Child Language: Implications for Principle and Parameter Models of Language Development. P. Bloom, Syntax-Semantics Mappings as an Explanation for Some Transitions in Language Development. I.M. Schlesinger, Two Approaches to the Acquisition of Grammar. Part II: Cross-Linguistic Persepectives.T. Hoekstra, The Acquisition of Functional Structure. E. Pizzuto, M.C. Caselli, The Acquisition of Italian Verb Morphology in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. R.A. Berman, Developmental Perspectives on Transitivity: A Confluence of Cues. C. Pye, A Cross-Linguistic Approach to the Causative Alteration. M. Rispoli, Structural Dependency and the Acquisition of Grammatical Relations. Part III: Pathology.T. Roeper, H.N. Seymour, The Place of Linguistic Theory in the Theory of Language Acquisition and Language Impairment. M.L. Gopnik, Theoretical Implications of Inherited Dysphasia. H. Tager-Flusberg, The Relationship Between Language and Social Cognition: Lessons From Autism. Y. Levy, Concluding Chapter: Modularity Reconsidered.

"...includes some new data and proposals and constitutes a useful addition to two other collected volumes of L1 acquisition studies that L2 researchers should be aware of."—Studies in Second Language Acquisition