Abstract
In this paper, we will describe what are (in our view) the newest and most exciting trends in current research on language development; trends that are likely to predominate in the few years that remain until the millennium. The paper is organized into six sections: (1) advances in data sharing (including the Child Language Data Exchange System), (2) improved description and quantification of the linguistic data to which children are exposed and the data that they produce (with implications for theories of language learning); (3) new theories of learning in neural networks that challenge old assumptions about the "learnability" (or unlearnability) of language, (4) increased understanding of the nonlinear dynamics that may underlie behavioral change, (5) research on the neural correlates of language learning, and (6) an increased understanding of the social factors that influence normal and abnormal language development.
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