Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 What Is Language Acquisition? -- 2 Experimental Paradigms for Studying Language Acquisition -- 3 Speech Perception in and out of the Womb -- 4 Learning about the Meaning of Words -- 5 Becoming a Grammatical Being -- 6 Beyond the Sentence -- 7 Atypical Language Development -- 8 Rethinking the Nature-Nurture Debate -- Further Readings -- Index