ABSTRACT
Linguistic and psycholinguistic journals, monographs, doctoral dissertations, and international conferences devote increasing attention to the search for universals and particulars in a crosslinguistic framework. The Journal of Child Language, founded in 1974, had devoted 80% of its data-oriented articles in the seventies to the acquisition of English. More important than the number of articles dealing with non-English languages, however, is the number of such languages that are being studied. Specific developmental aspects of the language are examined in depth. Theoretical implications should be drawn where appropriate. Issues that could be illuminated by further study of languages of this type, or in explicit comparison with other types of languages.
