Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Robert C. Berwick -- pt. I Poverty of the Stimulus and Modularity Revised -- 2. Poverty of the Stimulus Stands: Why Recent Challenges Fail / Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini -- 3. Children's Acquisition of Syntax: Simple Models are Too Simple / Janet Dean Fodor -- 4. Poverty of the Stimulus: Willingness to be Puzzled / Noam Chomsky -- 5. Revisiting Modularity: Using Language as a Window to the Mind / Susan Curtiss -- 6. Every Child an Isolate: Nature's Experiments in Language Learning / Barbara Landau -- pt. II Discrepancies between Child Grammar and Adult Grammar -- 7. Recent Findings about Language Acquisition / Jacques Mehler -- 8. Ways of Avoiding Intervention: Some Thoughts on the Development of Object Relatives, Passive, and Control / Luigi Rizzi -- 9. Merging from the Temporal Input: On Subject-Object Asymmetries and an Ergative Language / Itziar Laka.

Note continued: 10. Tough-Movement Developmental Delay: Another Effect of Phasal Computation / Ken Wexler -- 11. Assessing Child and Adult Grammar / Charles Yang -- 12. Three Aspects of the Relation between Lexical and Syntactic Knowledge / Thomas G. Bever -- pt. III Broadening the Picture: Spelling and Reading -- 13. Children's Invented Spelling: What We Have Learned in Forty Years / Rebecca Treiman -- 14. How Insights into Child Language Change our Understanding of the Development of Written Language: The Unfolding Legacy of Carol Chomsky / Maryanne Wolf -- 15. The Phonology of Invented Spelling / Wayne O'Neil -- 16. The Arts as Language: Invention, Opportunity, and Learning / Merryl Goldberg.