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The study of cognition, Daniel Osherson; language - introduction, LilaR. Gleitman and Mark Liberman; the invention of language by children -environmental and biological influence on the acquisition of language, LilaR. Gleitman and Elissa L. Newport; the case of the missing copula - theinterpretation of zeroes in African-American English, William Labov; why thechild holded the baby rabbits - a case study in language acquisition, StevenPinker; the sound structure of Mawu words - a case study in the cognitivescience of speech, Mark Liberman; exploring developmental changes incross-language speech perception, Janet F. Werker; language acquisition,Steven Pinker; speaking and misspeaking, Gary S. Dell; comprehending sentencestructure, Janet Dean Fodor; computational aspects of the theory of grammar,Mark Steedman; the forms of sentences, Howard Lasnik; lexical semantics andcompositionality, Barbara H. Partee; semantics, Richard Larson; brain regionsof relevance to syntactic processing, Edgar B. Zurif; some philosophy oflanguage, James Higginbotham.