This paper supports the contention of a previous paper that child language cannot be analyzed as if it were adult language. Meanings and interpretations of child language can be mistaken if observed from the adult viewpoint. Assumptions of child meaning based on the situation or action will be most accurate. (CHK)

Examines how speakers and listeners make judgments on the relationship and truth of propositions connected by subordinating conjunctions. (EKN)

This study of the acquisition of kinship terms in English is a test of the hypothesis that lexical items are learned in their order of complexity and of the validity of relational analysis in predicting the order of the acquisition of kinship terms. Earlier studies of kinship terms, Piaget's in particular, are first discussed, as well as the…