Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Fundamentals of Language Acquisition Research -- 1. The Challenge of Studying Language -- 2. Preparing to Work With Children, Schools, and Families -- 3. Creating the Data I: Working in Teams, Basic Data Collection, Data Sharing, and Data Management -- II. Experimental and Observational Methods in Language Acquisition Research -- 4. Studying Language Acquisition Through Collecting Speech -- 5. Introduction to Experimental Methods: Design and Analysis -- 6. Experimental Tasks for Generating Language Production Data -- 7. Experimental Tasks for Generating Language Comprehension Data -- 8. The Grammaticality Judgment Task -- III. Managing and Interpreting Speech Data -- 9. Creating the Data II: Begin Data Processing -- 10. Creating the Data III: Preparing for Data Analysis -- 11. Interpreting the Data: Scientific Inference -- IV. Special Considerations in Language Acquisition Research -- 12. Assessing Multilingual Acquisition -- 13. Introduction to Infant Testing Methods in Language Acquisition Research -- 14. Conclusions and Proceeding to the Future -- Appendix A: Transcription Symbols -- Appendix B: The International Phonetic Alphabet -- Appendix C: Outline for Preparation of Schematic Research Proposal -- Suggested Readings -- References -- Index -- About the Authors