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Journal of Child Language
VOL.2, NO.1, FEB.1999


Articles

LEE':, KANG OL.SON, DAVID R. &ToRRANCE, NANCY. Chinese children's 1
understanding of false beliefs: the role of language
BRAISBY , NICK & DOC'KREE.L, JULIE.Why is colotir naming difficult? 23

PETERSON , CAROL, JESSO, BEULAH & McCABE, ALLYSSA. Encoliraging
narratives in preschoolers: an intervention study 49

CASKELLI,CRISI'INA,CASADIO, PAOLA & BATES,ELIZABETH. A
comparison of the transition from first words to grammar in English and
Italian 69

COL.AS, ANNIK. Introducing infants to referential events: a development study
of material ostt'nsivc marking in French 113

BURGER, .LISA K & MILLER,PEGGY, J. Early talk about the past revisited:
aftect in working-class and middle-class children's co-narrations 133

SHADY, MICHELE & GERKEN, LOUANN. Grammatical and caregiver cues in
early sentence comprehension 163

Note
ROBINSON, HYHON F. & MI'RVIS, CAROLYN K. Comparing productive
vocabulary measures from the CD I and a systematic diary study 177

Reviews

O'GRADY, W. D. Syntactic development. Chicago IL: University of Chicago
Press (Frank Wijnen) 187

SI.OUIN, D. I. (ed.) The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, Volumes
4 & 5 Alahwah NJ: Erihaum (Marilyn Vihman) 194

BRE'NT, M .R. (ed.) Computational approaches to language acquisition.
Cambridge MA: MI'1' Press (Julian M. Pine, Fernand R. Gobet
& C'aroline F. Rowland) 203

UIRSH-I'ARI-'K, K. & GOI.INKOFF, R. M. Theoi-iginsof grammar: evidence
from early language comprehension. Cambridge MA: MIT Press
(Dan 1. Slobin) 208

Review article & discussion

ELMAN :J. L.., BATES, E. A.,JOHNSON, M. H, KARMILOFF-SMITH, A.,
P A RISI, D. & PLVNKETT, K. Rethinking innateness: a connectionist
perspective on development. Cambridge MA: MIT Press (Matthew Rispoli) 217

Discussion (N. Chater & M. Redington, N. Ellis, J. Feidman, B. MaeWhinney,
M. Mai-atsos, F. Gobet, V. llahn, V. Valian) 226

Authors' i-cpiv (K. Plunkett:, J. Elman, E. Bates) 253