Kevin Durkin and Sinclair Rogers

Editorial announcement
First Language 1983 4: 3-4. [PDF]  

Richard G. Schwartz

The role of action in early lexical acquisition
First Language 1983 4: 5-18. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Margaret Harris, David Jones, and Julia Grant

The nonverbal context of mothers' speech to infants
First Language 1983 4: 21-30. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Jeff Greenberg, Stan A. Kuczaj, II, and Ann E. Suppiger

An examination of adapted communication in young children
First Language 1983 4: 31-40. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Dorothy Edwards and Scott Curtis

The child's conceptualization of speech and language
First Language 1983 4: 41-49. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Keith E. Nelson

Abstract of Keynote Address
First Language 1983 4: 51-54. [PDF]  

Dennis Bancroft

Some children's solutions to a problem of temporal reference
First Language 1983 4: 55. [PDF] [References]  

Max Coltheart

Are there varieties of development dyslexia?
First Language 1983 4: 55-56. [PDF]  

Hazel Francis

Children's knowledge of spelling in learning to read
First Language 1983 4: 56. [PDF] [References]  

Anne Mills

The acquisition of phonology in the blind child
First Language 1983 4: 56-57. [PDF]  

R.D. Crowther and K. Durkin

Towards an understanding of children's comprehension of everyday spatial terms in musical and mathematical contexts
First Language 1983 4: 57. [PDF] [References]  

Susan Gregory and Juliet Bishop

The language development of deaf children during their fi rst term at school
First Language 1983 4: 58. [PDF] [References]  

Ana Nicolaci Da Costa

Redundancies and child language comprehension
First Language 1983 4: 58. [PDF]  

Margaret Harris and David Jones

What mothers say to children: some relations between the non-verbal and verbal context of early language development
First Language 1983 4: 59. [PDF]  

G.R.E. Ouweneel

Less or more? that is the question. Verbal and nonverbal choice behaviour of children
First Language 1983 4: 59. [PDF]  

David W. Purdy

Young children's understanding of number words
First Language 1983 4: 59-60. [PDF]  

Maureen Shields

LAD and LAASS -what the child brings to the task of learning language
First Language 1983 4: 60. [PDF]  

David Warden

Studying children's knowledge of meaning
First Language 1983 4: 60. [PDF]  

Kenneth Reeder

Classifications of children's speech acts: a consumer's guide
First Language 1983 4: 61. [PDF]  

Josephine M. Wilding

Brain spurt analysis and theories of language acquisition
First Language 1983 4: 61. [PDF]  

Anthony Wooton

The use of 'Please' by 4-year-olds
First Language 1983 4: 61-62. [PDF]  

Kathleen McCartney, Sandra Scarr, Amy Goldfarb, and Elizabeth Hrncir

The screening, assessment and treatment of language delay in young children: an evaluation plan
First Language 1983 4: 63-65. [PDF] [References]  

Margaret Martlew

Book Reviews : Learning through Interaction: the Study of Language Development. Gordon Wells (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1981). Pp. 304. Hardback, £22.50, ISBN 0 52123774 2. Paperback, £6.50, ISBN 0 52128219 5
First Language 1983 4: 67-69. [PDF]  

Joan Tough

Book Reviews : Verbal Deficit: A Critique. J.C.B. Gordon (London: Croom Helm, 1981). Pp. 192. Hardback, £10.95. ISBN 0 85664 990 2
First Language 1983 4: 70-71. [PDF] [References]  

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