Papers from the proceedings are: "Cultural Universals in the Acquisition of Language;""The Acquisition of Locative Constructions in Cantonese Children"; "The Acquisition of VOT: Is It Language-Dependent?"; "Flexibility in Semantic Representations: Children's Ability To Switch among Different Interpretations of 'Big' and 'Little'"; "Multifunctional 'Se': Course of Development in Spanish Children"; "Performance Constraints in Early Language: The Case of Subjectless Sentences"; "Object Affectedness and the Acquisition of Novel Verbs"; "Acquiring Proper Names for Familiar and Unfamiliar Animate Objects: Evidence from Two-Year-Olds"; "Early Relations Between Mother Talk and Language Development: Masked and Unmasked"; "Implementations Are Not Conceptualizations: Revising the Verb Learning Model"; "The Acquisition of V Movement"; "Semantic Inferences: The Role of Count/Mass Syntax"; "Distributional Analyses of Parent-Child Conversational Interaction"; "What's Missing in Dutch?"; "Do Young Children Linguistically Encode the Notion of Agent?"; "Crosslinguistic Evidence for the Structure of the Agent Prototype"; "Bootstrapping from Agency: Early Notions of Agency According to Pinker's Semantic Bootstrapping Hypothesis"; and "Semantic Roles and Grammatical Relations." (MSE)