Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence
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This volume brings together work by scholars with backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, education, and language pathology. As such, the book adds psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives to the clinical and classroom approaches that have dominated the study of “later language development”. Incorporating insights from prior language acquisition research, it goes beyond preschool age to consider both isolated utterances and extended discourse, conversational interactions and monologic text construction, and both written and spoken language use from early school-age across adolescence. Data from French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Swedish as well as English cover varied domains: morphology and lexicon, syntax and verb–argument structure, as well as peer interaction, spelling, processing of on-line writing, and reading poetry. The epilogue suggests explanations for the findings documented. Across the book, the authors show how cognitive and social maturation combines with increased literacy in the path taken by schoolchildren and adolescents towards the flexible deployment of a growing repertoire of lexical elements in varied morpho-syntactic constructions and different discourse contexts that constitutes the hallmark of maturely proficient language use.
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 3] 2004. xiv, 308 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
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Series editor's preface | pp. ix–x
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Preface | pp. xi–xiv
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Research on later language development: International perspectivesMarilyn A. Nippold | pp. 1–8
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Between emergence and mastery: The long development route of language acquisitionRuth A. Berman | pp. 9–34
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Lexical acquisition in the eraly school yearsJulie E. Dockrell and David J. Messer | pp. 35–52
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Derivational morphology revisited: Later lexical development in HebrewDorit Ravid | pp. 53–81
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Discursive constraints on the lexical realization of arguments in SpanishEkaterina Khorounjaia and Liliana Tolchinsky | pp. 83–109
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Syntactic ability in children and adolescents with language and learning disabilitiesCheryl M. Scott | pp. 111–133
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Growing into academic FrenchHarriet Jisa | pp. 135–161
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Learning to spell in a deep orthography: The case of FrenchSébastien Pacton and Michel Fayol | pp. 163–176
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Text-writing development viewed through on-line pausing in SwedishAsa Wengelin and Sven Strömqvist | pp. 177–190
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The role of peer interaction in later pragmatic development: The case of speech representationShoshana Blum-Kulka | pp. 191–210
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On reading poetry: Expert and novice knowledgeJoan Peskin and David R. Olson | pp. 211–232
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The nature and scope of later language developmentLiliana Tolchinsky | pp. 233–248
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Author Index | pp. 289–296
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Subject Index | pp. 297–307
“The editor, Ruth A. Berman, must be congratulated on compiling a book of such high academic caliber. The book is not a systematic introductory book, but rather an impressive overview of the field, written by leading researchers. There is no doubt that this book will become a classic.”
Carol Goldfus, University of Haifa, on Linguist List Vol.16, 2997, 2005
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