Topics 110Р Repairing munication 111Р Sustaining Dialogue and Contingent Responding 112Р The Role of the Adult 114Р Young Children’s Peer Conversations 115Р The Development of Narrative Skill 117Р The Conversational Origin of Narratives 117Р Adults’ Scaffolding of Children’s Narratives 117Р Developmental Changes in Children’s Narratives 118РSociolinguistic Development 120Р Learning to Produce Situationally Appropriate Language 120Р The Egocentric Child 120Р Children’s Use of Request Forms 120Р Politeness 121Р Children’s Child-Directed Speech 122Р Children’s Understanding of Register 124Р Early Gender-Typed Language Use 126Рmunicative Development 127Р Influences on Pragmatic Development 127Р Influences on the Development of Discourse Skill 129Р Influences on Sociolinguistic Development 130