ABSTRACT
How appropriate it is to use a Festschrift to bring written tokens of celebratory honor and personal appreciation to the distinguished writer and the founding professor of linguistic studies at Swarthmore College, Lila Gleitman. In the spirit of such an occasion, each contributor brings not only words of thankful praise, but a verbally expressed part of himself or herself that has some connection with the interests of the person celebrated, yet the message will inevitably reflect each author’s perspectives on whatever is his or her subject. I have, for instance, long been trying to figure out the connections between certain aspects of linguistics and the study of dyslexia, and so I have taken pleasure in focusing here on some of the interrelationships I have been seeing between these fields as they converge upon the processes and problems of the learning of one’s first language, or exposure language.
