This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) aspects of the organization of redundancy rules in the lexicon; (2) the adult role in early child language acquisition; (3) semantic categorization, intelligence, and language development; (4) lexical-generative grammar; (5) linguistic abilities of children with fetal alcohol syndrome; (6) deletion and interruption in comparatives; (7) semantic and syntactic aspects of children's questions at three linguistic stages; (8) metaphoricity, language, and mind; (9) field independence, grammatical awareness, and reading ability in second grade children; (10) the relationships among sugar-intake, attending related behavior, and the language development of preschool children; (11) the effect of linguistic awareness instruction on linguistic awareness concept development and reading attitudes of kindergarten children; (12) temporal features of infant speech; and (13) an interactive phonology of the English syllable. (FL)