Papers in First Language Acquisition. Odense Working Papers in Language and Communication No. 16.

This collection of papers is from a conference held at Odense University, Denmark on recent research in language acquisition in children. Following an introduction by the editors, it contains the following papers: "Development in a Connectionist Framework: Rethinking the Nature-Nurture Debate" (Kim Plunkett); "Experimental Evidence on the Acquisition of Past Tense Inflection in Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian Children" (Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir, Hanne Gram Simonsen, and Dorthe Bleses); "Signifying Subjects" (Chris Sinha); and "Speaking versus Writing--An Experimental Approach to Narrative Discourse Production" (Sven Stromqvist). (NKA)