Perera Joan, Aparici Melina, Rosado Elisa, Salas Naymé (Editors). Written and Spoken Language Development across the Lifespan

Springer, 2016. — xxi, 359 pp. — (Literacy Studies). — ISBN: 978-3-319-21136-7.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.Introduction to Written and Spoken Language: Development Across the Lifespan
Early Literacy Development
Writing and Spelling Development: Impact of Liliana Tolchinsky’s Research Over 30 Years
Mother-Child Joint Writing as a Learning Activity
The Language of Affect in Bilingual Child Directed Speech
Home and School Predictors of Reading Achievement in Linguistically Diverse Learners in the Intermediate Primary Grades.
Development of Literacy and Notational Knowledge. Prediction of Literacy Development Difficulties Through Graphomotor Measures in Grade 1
Syllabic Processes in the Initial Stages of Writing Development
Writing as a Domain of Knowledge for Both Children and Researchers
Perspectives on Spoken and Written Language: Evidence from English Speaking Children
The Development of Narrative Discourse in French by 5 to 10 Years Old Children: Some Insights from a Conversational Interaction Method
The Relationships Between Oral and Written Sentence Generation in English Speaking Children: The Role of Language and Literacy Skills
Later Literacy Development
Linguistic Literacy and Later Language Development.
Later Development of Relative Clauses Across Discourse Genres and Modalities of Production
When Causation Meets Motion: Motion Events at the Interface Between Coherence and Cohesion in Narrative Development
The Development of Referential Choice in Spanish Narratives Among School-Age Children and Adolescents
Categories of Referential Content in Expository Discussions of Conflict
A Developmental Perspective on the Units of Written French
Linguistic Correlates of Text Quality from Childhood to Adulthood
Sentence Generation in Children with and Without Problems of Written Expression.
Top-down Measures in 7th Grade Writing: The Effects of Genre and SES