Preface; 1. Introduction: child language research: building on the past, looking to the future Katherine Perera; 2. Is nativism sufficient? Martin D. S. Braine; 3. Speech-like vocalizations of infancy: an evaluation of potential risk factors D. Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca E. Eilers, Michele L. Steffens, Michael P. Lynch and Richard Urbano; 4. The (non)realisation of unstressed elements in children's utterances: evidence for a rhythmic constraint Frank Wijnen, Evelien Krikhaar and Els den Os; 5. Developmental and stylistic variation in the composition of early vocabulary Elizabeth Bates, Virginia Marchman, Donna Thal, Larry Fenson, Philip Dale, J. Steven Reznick, Judy Reilly and Jeff Hartung; 6. Early object labels: the case for a developmental lexical principles framework Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek; 7. Pronoun case over extensions and paradigm building Matthew Rispoli; 8. Sensitivity of children's inflection to grammatical structure John J. Kim, Gary F. Marcus, Steven Pinker, Michele Hollander and Maria Coppola; 9. The syntax of questions in child English Andrew Radford; 10. Exploring the boundary between syntax and pragmatics: relevance and the binding of pronouns Susan H. Foster-Cohen; Index.
