Written and Spoken Language Development across the Lifespan

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction to Written and Spoken Language Development Across the Lifespan

   • Joan Perera, Melina Aparici, Elisa Rosado, Naymé Salas

   Pages 1-13

3. Early Literacy Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Writing and Spelling Development: Impact of Liliana Tolchinsky’s Research Over 30 Years

      • R. Malatesha Joshi

      Pages 17-28

   3. Mother-Child Joint Writing as a Learning Activity

      • Dorit Aram, Iris Levin

      Pages 29-45

   4. The Language of Affect in Bilingual Child Directed Speech

      • Martha Shiro

      Pages 47-63

   5. Home and School Predictors of Reading Achievement in Linguistically Diverse Learners in the Intermediate Primary Grades

      • Ludo Verhoeven, Willy van Elsäcker

      Pages 65-76

   6. Development of Literacy and Notational Knowledge. Prediction of Literacy Development Difficulties Through Graphomotor Measures in Grade 1

      • Olga Soler Vilageliu, Cristina Sotoca Lasheras, Yago Ramis, Judit Castellà

      Pages 77-92

   7. Syllabic Processes in the Initial Stages of Writing Development

      • Sofía A. Vernon

      Pages 93-108

   8. Writing as a Domain of Knowledge for Both Children and Researchers

      • Ana Sandbank

      Pages 109-124

   9. Perspectives on Spoken and Written Language: Evidence from English Speaking Children

      • Judy Reilly, Lara Polse

      Pages 125-140

   10. The Development of Narrative Discourse in French by 5 to 10 Years Old Children: Some Insights from a Conversational Interaction Method

       • Edy Veneziano

       Pages 141-159

   11. The Relationships Between Oral and Written Sentence Generation in English Speaking Children: The Role of Language and Literacy Skills

       • Julie E. Dockrell, Vincent Connelly

       Pages 161-177

4. Later Literacy Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Linguistic Literacy and Later Language Development

      • Ruth A. Berman

      Pages 181-200

   3. Later Development of Relative Clauses Across Discourse Genres and Modalities of Production

      • Melina Aparici, Elisa Rosado, Joan Perera

      Pages 201-225

   4. When Causation Meets Motion: Motion Events at the Interface Between Coherence and Cohesion in Narrative Development

      • Judy R. Kupersmitt

      Pages 227-249

   5. The Development of Referential Choice in Spanish Narratives Among School-Age Children and Adolescents

      • Aurora Bel, Milagros Albert

      Pages 251-269

   6. Categories of Referential Content in Expository Discussions of Conflict

      • Bracha Nir, Irit Katzenberger

      Pages 271-285

   7. A Developmental Perspective on the Units of Written French

      • Emilie Ailhaud, Florence Chenu, Harriet Jisa

      Pages 287-305

This multidisciplinary volume offers insights on oral and written language development and how it takes place in literate societies. The volume covers topics from early to late language development, its interaction with literacy practices, including several languages, monolingual and multilingual contexts, different scripts, as well as typical and atypical development. Inspired by the work of Liliana Tolchinsky, a leading expert in language and literacy development, a group of internationally renowned scholars offers a state-of-the-art overview of current thinking in language development in literate societies in its broadest sense.

Contributors offer a personal tribute to Liliana Tolchinsky in the opening section.

• Bilingual child-directed speech
• Cohesion and coherence of narratives
• Correlation of text quality
• Development of referential choice
• Expressive writing difficulties
• French-speaking children
• Genre SES and writing literacy
• Language and literacy disorders
• Later language development
• Liliana Tolchinsky
• Linguistic correlates of text quality in Spanish
• Literacy development
• Literacy development difficulties
• Literate societies
• Narrative-clause combining
• Oral and written sentence generation
• Reading acheivements in first and second language...
• Reading and writing development
• Sentence reformulation and sentence generation
• Socio-cultural predictors of early literacy

This book is a fitting tribute to Liliana Tolchinsky, one of the premier researchers in writing and language development. It delivers on the promise in the title to examine developmental relationships between oral and written language. Compared to the extensive research on relationships between reading and writing, there is relatively little work connecting speaking and writing. Comparisons between oral and written language demand detailed investigation of linguistic features, including semantics, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, all of which are addressed. As primarily a cognitive researcher, I am aware that we do not pay adequate attention to linguistic factors in studying writing development and instruction. Several of the chapters provided insights that I will use in my own work. I anticipate that the book will be enthusiastically received by researchers with interests in writing development, linguistics, relationships between speech and writing, and writing assessment. Charles A. MacArthur, Professor, University of Delaware, USA

• Departament de Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Joan Perera, Elisa Rosado

• Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Evolutiva i de l’Educació, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Melina Aparici

• Departament de Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura, i de les Ciències Socials, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Naymé Salas

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