The purpose of this newsletter is to report current activities concerning the study of child language. Each issue will offer reports of ongoing research, announcements of upcoming meetings and conferences and reports on those recently held, and news of recent publications concerning language acquisition. This issue's research report is "Child Language Research in Japan: Part I" by Fred C. C. Peng, which describes a study conducted by Taro Takahasi and Ai Okubo on the development of communicational function in the course of sentence formation. The reports of meetings and conferences in this issue include the following: the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, the Child Language Papers at the Linguistic Society of America, the Child Language Research Forum, the British Association of Applied Linguistics, and the Chicago Linguistic Society. The publications annotated are: "Journal of Child Language,""Child Language Newsletter,""Papers and Reports on Child Language,""Child Language Development," and "Child Language Resume," as well as selected book notices. In addition, the newsletter describes the developing program on language learning at the University of Washington and a summer program in child phonology at Stanford University. (LG)