Language in education : forward to fundamentals / Dell Hymes -- On the relevance of recent developments in sociolinguistics to the study of language learning and early education / Roger Shuy -- Assessing kindergarten children's communicative competence / Janet K. Black -- Sex and social class differences in early mother-child interaction / Akke De Blauw [and others] -- What will a three-year-old say : an experimental study of situational variation / Barbara Bokus and Grace Wales Shugar -- Children's situational competence : two studies / Kathryn M. Borman -- A sociocognitive approach to language development and its implications for education / Louise J. Cherry -- The boys have the muscles and the girls have the sexy legs : adult-child speech and the use of generic person labels / Olga K. Garnica -- Sex differences in the language of children and parents / Jean Berko Gleason.

What is an instructional context : an exploratory analysis of conversational shifts across time / Judith Green and Cynthia Wallat -- A cross-cultural investigation of children's imagery / Vera John-Steiner, Patricia Irvine, and Helgi Osterreich -- Learning to say no : functional negation in discourse / Deborah Keller-Cohen and Cheryl A. Gracey -- Development of paralinguistic and kinesic espression of roles / Mary Ritchie Key -- Wou' you trade cookies with the popcorn? talk of trades among six year olds / Elliot G. Mishler -- A study of story retelling among young bilingual Indian children / Helgi Osterreich and Vera John-Steiner -- Dialogue, monologue and egocentric speech by children in nursery schools / Maureen M. Shields -- It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game / Jeffrey Shultz.