Papers presented at a 1977 symposium on language acquisition held at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee are included. Contents are as follows: "Assumptions, Methods and Goals in Language Acquisition Research" (Sheldon); "The Mother as LAD: Interaction between Order and Frequency of Parental Input and Child Production" (Forner); "Stress Acquisition: The Role of Homogeneous Rules" (Roeper, Stack, and Carlson); "The Acquisition of Perception Verb Complements" (Goodluck and Roeper); "The Acquisition of Tough Movement" (Solan); "Children's Interpretation of Reflexive Pronouns in English" (Read and Hare); "The Acquisition of Ask and Tell Structures by Arabic Speaking Children" (Aller, Aller, and Maloue-Saad); "The Structure of Coordination in Children's First Language Acquisition of Japanese" (Lust and Wakayama); "The Acquisition of Action Representations in American Sign Language" (Steyaert and Ellenberger); "The Comparative Study of First and Second Language Acquisition" (Spolsky); "Linguistic Input in First and Second Language Learning" (Gaies); "Acquisition of English Prepositions by Monolingual and Bilingual (French/English) Ontarian Students" (Mougeon, Canale, and Carroll); "The Developmental Aspects of Second Language Acquisition Revisited" (Rey); "The Acquisition of German as a Second Language" (Keel); "Two Birds with One Stone: Teaching a Standard Dialect to Mixed Classes" (Cortina and Myers); and "Teaching English Suprasegmentals to Spanish Speakers" (Chela de Rodriguez). (SW)