CONTENTS VOLUME 29 Articles BASCELLI, ELISABETTA & BARBIERI, Maria SILviA. Italian children’s understanding of the epistemic and deontic modal verbs dovere (must) and potere (may) Brooks, Patricia J. & Zizak, OTto. Does preemption help children learn verb transitivity? CLAHSEN, HaraLp, AVELEDO, FraiBET & Roca, Iccy. The develop- ment of regular and irregular verb inflection in Spanish child language CourRTNEY, ELLEN H. & SAvILLeE-TROIKE, Muriev. Learning to construct verbs in Navajo and Quechua FERENZ, Krac S. & PRASADA, SANDEEP. Singular or plural? Children’s knowledge of the factors that determine the appropriate form of count nouns GIERUT, JUDITH A. & O’CONNOR, KATHLEEN M. Precursors to onset clusters in acquisition INGRAM, Davin. The measurement of whole-word productions JosePpH, Kate L. & PINE, JULIAN M. Does error-free use of French negation constitute evidence for very early parameter setting? Karrass, JAN, BRAUNGART-RIEKER, JULIA M., MULLINS, JENNIFER & BuRKE LEFEVER, JENNIFER. Processes in language acquisition: the roles of gender, attention, and maternal encouragement of attention over time KAUSCHKE, CHRISTINA & HOFMEISTER, CHRISTOPH. Early lexical development in German: a study on vocabulary growth and vocabulary composition during the second and third year of life LABELLE, MariE, GopARD, Lucie & LONGTIN, CATHERINE-MARIE. Grammatical and situational aspect in French: a developmental study LEGERSTEE, MARIA, VARGHESE, JEAN & VAN BEEK, YOLANDA. Effects on maintaining and redirecting infant attention on the production of referential communication in infants with and without Down syndrome Levorato, M. Curara & CacciaARi, CRISTINA. The creation of new figurative expressions: psycholinguistic evidence in Italian chil- dren, adolescents and adults Morcan, Gary, HERMAN, ROSALIND & WOLL, BENCcIE. The develop- ment of complex verb constructions in British Sign Language JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE NaIGLes, LetiT1A R. & LEHRER, NADINE. Language-general and language-specific influences on children’s acquisition of argument structure: a comparison of French and English NEWTON, CAROLINE & WELLS, BILL. Between-word junctures in early multi-word speech NIcoLapIs, ELENA. What’s the difference between ‘toilet paper’ and ‘paper toilet’? French-English bilingual children’s crosslinguistic transfer in compound nouns SANTELMANN, LYNN, BERK, STEPHANIE, AUSTIN, JENNIFER, SOMA- SHEKAR, SHAMITHA & Lust, BARBARA. Continuity and development in the acquisition of inversion in yes/no questions: dissociating movement and inflection ScHMipT, Curis L. & LAwson, KATHARINE R. Caregiver attention- focusing and children’s attention-sharing behaviours as predictors of later verbal IQ in very low birthweight children SERRATRICE, Lupovica. Overt subjects in English: evidence for the marking of person in an English-Italian bilingual child StorKEL, Hotty L. Restructuring of similarity neighbourhoods in the developing mental lexicon ‘THEAKSTON, ANNA L., LIEVEN, ELENA V. M., PINE, JULIAN M. & ROWLAND, CAROLINE F. Going, going, gone: the acquisition of the verb ‘go’ VocEL, IRENE & Raimy, Eric. The acquisition of compound vs. phrasal stress: the role of prosodic constituents Wacner, Laura. Understanding completion entailments in the ab- sence of agency cues WITTEK, ANGELIKA & TOMASELLO, MiIcHAEL. German children’s productivity with tense morphology: the Perfekt (present perfect) Discussion Article Ravip, Dorit & ToLcHiInsky, LILIANA. Developing linguistic liter- acy: a comprehensive model Commentaries (M. Bamberg, R. A. Berman, D. Biber, R. Reppen & S. Conrad, M. Kail, N. Kemp, J. Miller, M. A. Nippold, C. Parisse, D. Sharpe & P. D. Zelazo, L. Verhoeven) Authors’ response Notes AGUADO-OREA, JAVIER & PINE, JULIAN M. There is no evidence for a “no overt subject’ stage in early child Spanish: a note on Grinstead (2000) JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE AKHTAR, NAMEERA. Relevance and early word learning BORNSTEIN, Marc H., PAINTER, KATHLEEN M. & Park, JAIHYUN. Naturalistic language sampling in typically developing children CHo, SOOKEUN, LEE, MIsEon, O’Grapy, WILLIAM, SONG, MINsuN, SuzuKI, TAKAAKI & YOSHINAGA, Naoko. Word order preferences for direct and indirect objects in children learning Korean CRONIN, VIRGINIA S. The syntagmatic—paradigmatic shift and reading development DEMKE, TAMARA L., GRAHAM, SUSAN A. & SIAKALUK, PAuL D. The influence of exposure to phonological neighbours on preschoolers’ novel word production EISENBERG, SARITA. Interpretation of relative clauses by young chil- dren: another look GRANT, JULIA, VALIAN, VIRGINIA & KARMILOFF-SMITH, ANNETTE. A study of relative clauses in Williams syndrome Howe, CHRISTINE J. The countering of overgeneralization MANDERS, KATHERINE & HALL, D. GEOFFREY. Comparison, basic- level categories and the teaching of adjectives Masataka, Nosuo. Pitch modification when interacting with elders: Japanese women with and without experience of infants McDonoucu, LARAINE. Basic-level nouns: first learned but mis- understood MUELLER GATHERCOLE, VIRGINIA C., SEBASTIAN, EUGENIA & SOTO, Pitar. Negative commands in Spanish-speaking children: no need for recourse to relativized minimality (a reply to Grinstead, 2000) Namy, Laura L. & WAXMAN, SANDRA R. Patterns of spontaneous production of novel words and gestures within an experimental setting in children aged 1;6 and 2;2 RisPOLiI, MATTHEW. Theory and methods in the study of the develop- ment of case and agreement: a response to Schiitze VaN VALIN Jr., Ropert D. The development of subject—auxiliary inversion in English wh-questions: an alternative analysis Reviews BarreETT, M. (ed.). The development of language. Psychology Press Ltd., 1999. Pp. 415. (Dorit Ravid) BisHop, Dorotuy V. M. & LEoNaRD, LAURENCE B. (eds). Speech and language impairments in children : causes, characteristics, intervention and outcome. Hove, UK: Psychology Press, 2000. Pp. xiii—305. (Julie Dockrell) Deucuar, M. & Quay, S. Bilingual acquisition: theoretical impli- cations of a case study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x+ 163. (Li Wei) JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE Ditrmar, N. & PENNER, Z. (eds). Issues in the theory of language acquisition : essays in honour of Jiirgen Weissenborn. Berne: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. xxili-245. (Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux) 208 LeBeaux, D. Language acquisition and the form of the grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000. Pp. 277. (Ludovica Serratrice) ‘THORNTON, R. & WeEx._er, K. Principle B, VP ellipsis and inter- pretation in child grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. vii—241. (Martin Atkinson)