Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editorial -- Preface -- List of contributors -- The study of child language acquisition: a survey and a discussion of some recent developments / Lalleman, Josten -- The prelinguistic stage / Gillis, Steven / Beinum, Floriert Koopmans-van / Stelt, Jeannette van der -- The language of blind children: normal or abnormal / Mills, Anne Ε. -- Two perspectives on egocentric speech / Goudena, Paul P. -- Acquisition of spatial reference in Chinese / Ping, Li -- Missing subjects and objects in child grammar / Haan, Ger J. de / Tuijnman, K. -- Critical phases of grammar development. A study of the acquisition of negation in children and adults / Clahsen, Harald -- The acquisition of word order in L2 Dutch and German / Jordern, Peterweiterlesen