Perspectives on Language and Language Development Essays in honor of Ruth A. Berman / edited by Dorit Diskin Ravid, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot.

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ravid, Dorit Diskin (Editor), Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edition:1st ed. 2005.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Language and Discourse
  • Catégorisation, Grammatication 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
  • Transcribing Spoken Israeli Hebrew: Preliminary Notes
  • From Vanity to Grace
  • Language Rights in the Multilingual Society of Israel
  • 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 Social Perspective
  • What Little Red Riding Hood Tells Us about Italian Children’s Writing
  • 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.