Developing Language and Literacy: Studies in Honor of Dorit Diskin Ravid [Paperback]

This volume dedicated to Dorit Ravid, offers 29 new chapters on the multiple facets of spoken and written language learning and usage from a group of illustrious scholars and scientists, focusing on typologically different languages and anchored in a variety of communicative settings. The book encompasses five interrelated yet distinct topics. One set of studies is in the field of developmental psycholinguistics, covering the acquisition of lexical and grammatical categories from toddlerhood to adolescence. A second topic involves a section of studies on the interface of cognition and language, with chapters on processing, production, comprehension, teaching and learning language in usage and in historical perspective. A third topic involves a theoretical and applied perspectives on the acquisition and development of literacy competence, including reading, writing, spelling and text production. A fourth topic brings together an array of studies on social, environmental andclinical diversity in language, highlighting novel issues in multilingualism, immigration, language and literacy disorders. Finally, a section of the volume examines in depth questions in Modern Hebrew linguistics, as the home language and launching base of Dorit Ravids research work.

Introduction.- Effects of the learning environment on aspects of early language: Evidence from Turkish by Aksu Ko?, Ayhan.- Interactive storybook reading: Direct and delayed effects of interventions guiding preschoolers mothers in different dyadic activities by Aram, Dorit, & Iris Levin.- Children's command of plural marking on Hebrew nouns - evidence from Russian-Hebrew bilingual children by Armon Lotem, Sharon & Julia Reznick.- Life and death expressions in Hebrew through time by Bat Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava & Kuzai Einat.- From toddlerhood to adolescence: The case of the subordinator 'that' in Hebrew by Berman, Ruth A..- On the role of suffixlCQ