The Annual Review of Language Acquisition (ARLA) is devoted to research in the domain of first language acquisition, i.e., the process of acquiring command of a first language and publishes reports of original research pertaining to various approaches to first language acquisition: experimental, computational, clinical or theoretical.Contents:Jill G.de Villiers: Continuity and Modularity in Language Acquisition and ResearchMitsuhiko Ota: Phonological Evidence and the Development of Prosodic Structure: Evidence from Child LanguageJoan Sawyer: Bifurcating the Verb Particle Construction: Evidence from Child LanguageMarja van Helden-Lankhaar: A Connection in Lexical Development: Innovative Compounds and Coordinate Relations