In the beginning was the wug : forty years of language-elicitation studies / Nan Bernstein Ratner and Lise Menn -- Infants' verbal imitation and their language development : controversies, techniques,and consequences / Elise Frank Masur -- Examining young children's morphosyntactic development through elicited production / LouAnn Gerken -- Coining new words : old and new word forms for new meanings / Eve V. Clark -- Children's innovative verbs versus nouns : structured elicitations and spontaneous coinages / Ruth A. Berman -- Methods for studying the production of argument structure in children and adults / Jess Gropen -- Methods for stimulating and measuring lexical and syntactic advances : why fiffins and lobsters can tag along with other recast friends / Keith E. Nelson -- Eliciting second language speech data / Catherine Doughty and Michael H. Long -- What you see is what you get : the importance of transcription for interpreting children's morphosyntactic development / Carolyn E. Johnson -- Food for thought : dinner table as a context for observing parent-child discourse / Barbara Alexander Pan, Rivka Y. Perlmann, and Catherine E. Snow -- Exploring register knowledge : the value of "controlled improvisation" / Elaine Andersen -- The story behind the story : gathering narrative data from children / Richard Ely ... [et al.] -- Studying conversation : how to get natural peer interaction / Susan M. Ervin-Tripp -- Elicited imitation and other methods for the analysis of trade-offs between speech and language skills in children / Nan Bernstein Ratner -- The challenge of studying language development in children with autism / Helen Tager-Flusberg -- Understanding grammatical deficits in children with specific language impairment : the evaluation of productivity / Laurence B. Leonard -- Influences of school-age children's beliefs and goals on their elicited pragmatic performance : lessons learned from kissing the Blarney Stone / Mavis L. Donahue -- Jean Berko Gleason's contributions to aphasia research : pioneering elicitation techniques / Harold Goodglass -- Studying the pragmatic microstructure of aphasic and normal speech : an experimental approach / Lise Menn -- Eliciting language from patients with Alzheimer's disease / Loraine K. Obler and Susan De Santi