Perspectives On Language And Language Development

by Ravid, Dorit Diskin; Shyldkrot, Hava Bat-Zeev; Berman, Ruth Aronson

• ISBN13: 9781402079030
• ISBN10: 1402079036
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Perspectives on Language and Language Development brings together new perspectives on language, discourse and language development in 31 chapters by leading scholars from several countries with diverging backgrounds and disciplines. It is a comprehensive overview of language as a rich, multifaceted system, inspired by the lifework of Ruth A. Berman. Edited by Dorit Ravid and Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, both from Tel Aviv University, Israel, the book offers state-of-the-art portrayals of linguistic and psycholinguistic phenomena with new insights on the interrelations of language structure, discourse theory, and the development of language and literacy. The volume presents innovative investigations on the interface of language and narrative in a broad range of languages, with a section devoted to linguistic studies of Modern Hebrew. It traces the development of language and literacy from early childhood through adolescence to maturity in spoken and written contexts, and in monolingual as well as multilingual perspectives. Linguists, psycholinguists, discourse scholars, cognitive psychologists, language teachers, education experts, and clinicians working in the field of language and discourse will find this book extremely useful both as a textbook and as a source of information.

Table of Contents

List of contributors The life and work of Ruth A. BermanRuth A. Berman's

list of publications

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Language And Discourse

Catègorisation, grammaticalisation et lexicalisation

Parsing forms with identical consonants: Hebrew reduplication

Linear first-time derivation of verbs and consonant cluster preservation in Israeli Hebrew

Modern Hebrew Consonant Clusters; Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald

Transcribing Spoken Israeli Hebrew: Preliminary notes

From Vanity to Grace: A case study of metaphorical frame contacts

Language rights in the multilingual society of Israel; Elena ShohamyThe Interrelations Of Language And Narrative

Grammatical gender and personification

Relating narrative events in translation

Why do we need evaluation devices anyway?

On interpreting: A tutorial

A Developmental Perspective On Language And Discourse

Teaching and artificial life

Resultant states in early language acquisition

The acquisition of subordination: From preconjunctionals to later use

The emergence of expressive options in early child language: A constructivist account

Children's names contribute to early literacy: A linguistic and a social perspective

What Little Red Riding Hood tells us about Italian children's writing; Daniela Fabbretti and Clotilde PontecorvoNarrative Development In The School Years

Role of the home context in relations between narrative abilities and literacy practices

'I will tell you the whole true story now': Sequencing the past, present and future in children's conversational narratives

Perceiving and producing the Frog Story

Narratives in children with Williams Syndrome: A cross-linguistic perspective

Logical connectors in Hebrew: how well do eighth-graders master them?

The super-structure of written expository texts - A developmental perspective

Emergence of linguistic complexity in later language development: Evidence from expository text construction

Developing alternatives for indicating discourse stance

Becoming proficient educated users of language

Task-related variation in tense usage in Arabic-Hebrew interlanguage

Acquisition, attrition, and revitalization of Hebrew in immigrant children

Word class distinctions in an incomplete grammar

Literacy development across language boundaries

Perceptions and evidence of early literacy in Hebrew

Index

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