1. Introduction (by De Houwer, Annick); 2. Complex Primitives in Language Acquisition (by Vandeloise, Claude); 3. Words and Categories at the Onset of Language Acquisition: Product Versus Process (by Gillis, Steven); 4. Nouns and their Companions - or How a Three-Year-Old Handles the Dutch Gender System (by De Houwer, Annick); 5. Lexical Development in Ethnic Minority Children (by Verhoeven, Ludo); 6. The Development of Morphosyntax in Dutch Children from One to Four (by Bol, Gerard); 7. Word Grammar and Child Grammar (by Van Langendonck, Willy); 8. Segmental Awareness of Speech and Learning the Alphabetic Code (by Content, Alain); 9. Summaries - Resumes - Samenvattingen; 10. Linguistic Society of Belgium Style Sheet for the Belgian Journal of Linguistics