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Foreword; Panel: 1. Current approaches to phonological development;Introduction Katherine Demuth; 2. Phonological variability in languageacquisition: a representational account Keren Rice; 3. The segmentalstructure of early words: articulatory frames or phonological constraintsClara C. Levelt; 4. Two strategies in the acquisition of syllable and wordstructure E. Jane Fee; 5. The development of prosodic words Katherine Demuth;Papers: 6. Acquisition of causatives in Inuktitut Shanley E. M. Allen; 7. Theacquisition of discourse markers as sociolinguistic variables: across-linguistic comparison Elaine S. Andersen, Maria Brizuela, BeatriceDuPuy, and Laura Gonnerman; 8. Locating parameters: evidence from earlyword-order Sharon Armon-Lotem; 9. Acquisition of spatial devices in Americansign language as evidenced by sentence repetition Jeffrey Bettger, Edward S.Klima, Bonita Ewan, Colleen Lee Smith; 10. Verb initial utterances in earlychild German: a study of the interaction of grammar and pragmatics KatharinaBoser; 11. Verbs, particles, and spatial semantics: learning to talk aboutspatial actions in typologically different languages Melissa Bowerman,Lourdes de Leo'n and Soonja Choi; 12. Acquiring the locative alternation: howcan children tell alternators from nonalternators? Ursula Brinkmann; 13.Linguistic team-work: the interaction of linguistic modules in first languageacquisition Hilke Elsen; 14. Like, how do children use _like_?: a relevancetheoretic approach Marie E. Helt and Susan Foster-Cohen; 15. The effect ofthe whole object bias on preschoolers' understanding of collective nounsGavin N. Huntley-Fenner; 16. Asymmetry in the taxonomic assumption: wordlearning vs property induction Mutsumi Imai; 17. A study of Chinesechildren's comprehension of universal quantifiers Xiangdong Jia, Patricia J.Brooks and Martin D. S. Braine; 18. Verb errors in the early acquisition ofMexican and Castilian Spanish Catalina M. Johnson; 19. A negative polarityverb: acquiring its lexical licensers Charlotte Koster and Sjoukje van derWal; 20. Comparing different views of early grammatical development Elena V.M. Lieven and Julian M. Pine; 21. Sonority driven cluster reduction DianeOhala; 22. The acquisition of breaking and cutting Clifton Pye, Diane Loeband Yin-Yin Pao; 23. Factors contributing to the frequency of pronoun caseoverextension Matthew Rispoli.