Preface
Acknowledgments
Pt. I Linguistic Knowledge
1 Introduction to Language Acquisition
2 Knowledge in the Absence of Experience
3 Stages of Language Acquisition
4 Why Language Does Not Have to be Taught
5 Dispelling a Common-Sense Account
6 Universal Grammar and the Logical Problem of Language Acquisition
7 The Modularity Hypothesis

Pt. II Constituent Structure
8 Phrase Structure
9 Phrase Structure Rules and X'-Theory
10 Setting the X'-Parameters
11 Phrasal Categories
12 Ambiguity and Productivity
13 Children's Knowledge of Phrase Structure
14 Constraints on Reference
15 Children's Knowledge of Constraints: Backwards Anaphora

Pt. III Transformational Syntax
16 A Transformation Generating Yes/No Questions
17 Children's Adherence to Structure Dependence
18 WH-Movement
19 Cross-Linguistic Aspects of WH-Questions
20 The Acquisition of WH-Questions
21 Successive Cyclic Movement
22 Successful Cyclic Movement
23 A Constraint on Contraction
24 Acquisition of Wanna Contraction
25 Principle C in WH-Questions
26 Children's Knowledge of Strong Crossover

Pt. IV Universal Grammar in the Visual Modality
27 The Structure of American Sign Language
28 The Acquisition of American Sign Language
29 The Structure and Acquisition of WH-Questions in American Sign Language
30 Parameter Setting
31 Modularity and Modality

Pt. V Semantics and Philosophy of Language
32 Theories of Meaning
33 Truth-Conditional Semantics
34 Compositionality I
35 Compositionality II
36 Intensional Semantics
37 Learnability of Syntax and Semantics
38 Acquisition of NPs with Modifiers
39 Relative Clauses
40 Universal Quantification

References
Index