The proceedings include the following papers: "Why We Study Child Language"; "Children's Use of Information in Word Learning"; "An Examination of the Initial Mapping of Verb Meanings"; "Evidence for the VP Constituent from Child Korean"; "The Role of Stress, Position, and Intonation in the Representation and Identification of Early Words"; "Nonegocentric Uses of 'Big' and 'Little' by Preschool Children"; "Texts within Texts: A Developmental Study of Children's Play Narratives"; "Another Look at Children's Interpretation of Complements to 'Be Easy'"; "Precocious Passives (and Antipassives) in Quiche Mayan"; "Encounters with Japanese Verbs: Categorization into Transitive and Intransitive Classes"; "Language Learnability and Empirical Plausibility"; "The Acquisition of Reflexives and Pronouns by Icelandic Children"; "Linguistic Representation of Children's Wh-Questions"; "Word Learning Strategies in Two-Year-Old Children: Evidence for Category Hierarchies"; "Iconicity in Semantics: A Case of Suprasegmental Marking in the Acquisition of the English Plural"; and five presentations for a panel on future directions: "Confessions of a Wayward Chomskyan"; "What Is Functionalism?"; "A Principles-and-Parameters Approach"; "Theory and Explanation in Language Acquisition"; and "The Connectionist Approach to Language". (MSE)