Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Emergence and applications of the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis -- Pre-language cognition, motion event semantics, and the transition from single words to first sentences -- Bootstrapping and the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese: A natural semantic metalanguage perspective -- The Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis and conventionality: a crosslinguistic study on verb acquisition by Chinese Mandarin- and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children -- Lexical acquisition through acquisition order -- Lexicon-grammar continuity in Turkish children's language growth -- The interrelation between lexical and grammatical abilities in early language acquisition -- Continuity of lexical, grammatical, phonetic and phonological development in German late talkers - A longitudinal study -- Function words and the bootstrapping of grammar in normally developing and impaired L1-acquisition of German -- The role of the lexicon in the development of the language processor -- Grammar from the lexicon: Evidence from neural network simulations of language acquisition -- List of contributors -- Index