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.

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 system, inspired by the lifework of Ruth A. Berman. Edited by Dorit Ravid and Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, both from Tel Aviv University, Israel, the book offers state-of-the-art portrayals of linguistic and psycholinguistic phenomena with new insights on the interrelations of language structure, discourse theory, and the development of language and literacy. The volume presents innovative investigations on the interface of language and narrative in a broad range of languages, with a section devoted to linguistic studies of Modern Hebrew. It traces the development of language and literacy from early childhood through adolescence to maturity in spoken and written contexts, and in monolingual as well as multilingual perspectives. Linguists, psycholinguists, discourse scholars, cognitive psychologists, language teachers, education experts, and clinicians working in the field of language and discourse will find this book extremely useful both as a textbook and as a source of information.