On the development of the field of language development -- Basic foundations and theoretical approaches to language development : The neurodevelopmental bases of language ; Formal and computational constraints on language development ; Domain-general learning capacities ; How inherently social is language? ; Input and the acquisition of language: three questions ; The emergence of language: a dynamical systems account-- Language development in infancy : Experiential influences on speech perception and speech production in infancy ; Acquiring linguistic structure ; Cognitive processes in early word learning ; Syntactic supports for word learning -- Language development in early childhood : Phonological development ; Mechanisms of word learning ; The abstract nature of syntactic representations: consequences for a theory of learning ; Conversational understanding in young children ; Bilingual first language acquisition -- Language development after early childhood : Developing linguistic knowledge and language use across adolescence ; Language and literacy in bilingual children in the early school years ; Second language acquisition in childhood -- Atypical language development : Children with specific language impairment: bridging the genetic and developmental perspectives ; Atypical language development: autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders ; Reading and reading disorders

1. Language acquisition