Acknowledgements
Glossary of text conventions and symbols
Introduction
Part I. Problems with Words: 1. What's in a word?
2. The child's road to words
3. Blocks on the road to words
4. Exploring the blockage
5. 'Dant always day dings': problems with phonology
6. 'Stip' or 'step' or 'slip' or what?: problems with lexical processing
Part II. Grappling with Verb Structure: 7. Translating events
8. Growing verb structures
9. Shortfalls with verbs
10. 'Thing out. Tip in there': problems with verb processing
Part III. Missing Function Morphemes: 11. Filling out sentences
12. 'That one not working, see': problems with auxiliary verb processing
Part VI. Hidden Meanings, Baffling Meanings: 13. The roots of meaning
14. '[æ] you don't tell nobody this?': strengths in pragmatic processing
15. 'I can speak Chinese. But I can't speak Chinese': problems in pragmatic processing
Endpoint and springboard
Further reading
References
Index.
