The contributors to the Proceedings of the Thirtieth Meeting of the Child Language Research Forum explore their findings on language acquisition in a variety of the world’s languages, reflecting the diversity of interests in the field and the range of languages being studied. This volume makes an empirical, as well as a theoretical, contribution to linguistic research. Since its inception in 1967, the Forum has provided an informal but critical setting for the presentation of new ideas and research on first language acquisition. The Forum itself is sponsored by the Linguistics Department at Stanford University, and is organized by graduate students. The Forum draws researchers from around the globe.

Contributors Nameera Akhtar, Raquel Jaakkola, Ayhan Aksu-Koc, Didem Mersin Alici, Misha Becker, Nina Hyams, Michael R. Brent, Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Steven Gillis, Dorit Ravid, Thomas Hun-tak Lee, Ann Law, Catherine Leger, Elena Lieven, Anna Theakston, Asli Ozyurek, Seyda Ozcaliska, Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir, Sven Stromqvist, Asa Nordqvist, Yasuhiro Shirai, Susanne Miyata, Norio Naka, Yoshiko Sakazaki, John C. Trueswell, Irina Sekerina, Nicole M. Hill, Marian Logrip, Sigal Uziel-Kar, Colleen Wapoles, Cathy S. P. Wong, Farrell Ackerman, Sirkka Vanttila, Katsura Aoyam, John Archibald, Tim Mills, Paul Boersma, Clara C. Levelt, Penelope Brown, Jennifer Ganger, Steven Pinker, Allison Baker, Sonia Chawla, Jeanette K. Gundel, Sherri Page, Maria Sera, Naomi Hamasaki, Yonata Levy, Ping Li, Kimberly Getty, Ashley Diefendorf, Julien Musolinoh, Tony C. Smith, Jesse Snedeker, Karin Stromswold, Natalie Batman-Ratyosyan, Jane Tsay, Xiao-Jun Chen, James Myers