Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-421) and index.
pt. 1. Sounds. Introduction -- Sounds and suprasegmentals -- Sound variation -- Sound change -- Phonetics, syllables and phonological processes -- Child phonology -- Processing sounds -- pt. 2. Words. Introduction -- Word classes -- Building words -- Morphology across languages -- Word meaning -- Children and words -- Lexical processing and the mental lexicon -- Lexical disorders -- Lexical variation and change -- pt. 3. Sentences. Introduction -- Basic terminology -- Sentence structure -- Empty categories -- Movement -- Syntactic variation -- Sentence meanings and logical form -- Children's sentences -- Sentence processing -- Syntactic disorders -- Using sentences.