Table of Contents A Note from Editors List of Contributors PLENARY The Child Learns to Think for Speaking Puzzles of Crosslinguistic Diversity in Form-meaning Mappings Dan I. Slobin The Effects of Teaching Practice on the Development of Students' English Proficiency Kensaku Yoshida INVITED SYPOSIUM Optimality Theory in Cognitive Science Haruka Fukazawa, Mafuyu Kitahara, and Mitsuhiko Ota SYMPOSIUM Bilingual Children’s Styles of Story Construction and Their Linguistic and Educational Implications Masashiko Minami Narrative Construction by Bilingual Children: Referential Topic Management Makiko Kajiawawra and Masahiko Minami GENERAL SESSION PAPERS An Investigation of Maternal Communication Styles During Conversations With Young Children: Drawing on an Analysis of the Expression of Communicative Intentions in Japanese Dyads Hiromi Tsuji and Rhona Stainthorp Socializing Two-year-old Children to Public Presentation of Self: Service Encounters Matthew Burdelski Mothers’ Perspective-taking in Stories Told to 3-year Olds: Implications for Cultural Asymmetries in Japanese and American Socialization for Empathy and Omoiyari Tomoko Wakabayashi and Anne Fernald Young Children’s Assessment of Linguistically Encoded Reliability of Speaker Knowledge Tomoko Matsui and Yui Miura The Attachment Preference and the Role of Referential Information in Second Language Parsing Yuki Hirose, Taisuke Goya, and Yukiko Ofuru NPs in L2 Japanese Sentence Processing Akiko Kashiwagi and Mineharu Nakayama Acquisition of Reverse Order Strategy in Narrative Temporality Development by Japanese-English Bilinguals Noriko Akiho-Toyoda Gesture in L1 and L2: Reference to Ground Information in Narrative Keiko Yoshioka Misunderstandings Arising From Different Uses of Back-channeling by Native Speakers and Chinese Learners of Japanese Tomoki Furukawa The Validity of Self-assessments Among Elementary School Students Yuko Goto Butler and Jiyoon Lee An Anatomy of the “Oblique” Category on the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy: A Typological Study of Relative Clauses in Marathi, Chinese, Japanese, Adioucrou and English Prashant Pardeshi, Luming Wang, and Kaoru Horie Representing Selectional Restrictions in Terms of Semantic Frames Equated with Situational Schemas: A Case Study with the Japanese Verb Osou Keiko Nakamoto and Kow Kuroda The Role of Phonological Encoding and Attentional Resource in Sentence Comprehension after Reading Silently and Orally Maiko Takahashi and Akihiro Tanaka