This volume contains 34 papers presented at the Groningen Assembly on LanguageAcquisition in September 1995. According to the editors, the conference was designed topromote “a lively discussion about the merits and constraints of different approaches tolanguage acquisition.” Not surprisingly, in a conference that explicitly mentions it iscontinuing in the tradition of GALA 1993, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, 23of the papers in one way or the other deal with the innate properties of language and their statusin language acquisition, whereas 7 papers have a connectionist perspective. Only 2 of theconnectionist papers provide data from language learners. Two papers describe aspects of firstlanguage acquisition without an obvious theoretical allegiance. Only 1 paper considers howchildren make use of negative input provided in an experimental setting for learning aboutirregular verb forms. There is not a single paper on how interaction with caregivers influenceslanguage acquisition or how language is socially constructed.