Perspectives on Language and Language Development

List of contributors The life and work of Ruth A. Berman

Ruth A. Berman's list of publications

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. Language And Discourse
1. Catégorisation, grammaticalisation et lexicalisation; Hava Bat-Zeev ShyldkrotThe Hebrew Language In Israel
2. Parsing forms with identical consonants: Hebrew reduplication; Outi Bat-El
3. Linear first-time derivation of verbs and consonant cluster preservation in Israeli Hebrew; Shmuel Bolozky
4. Modern Hebrew Consonant Clusters; Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald
5. Transcribing Spoken Israeli Hebrew: Preliminary notes; Shlomo Izre'el
6. From Vanity to Grace: A case study of metaphorical frame contacts; Tamar Sovran
7. Language rights in the multilingual society of Israel; Elena ShohamyThe Interrelations Of Language And Narrative
8. Grammatical gender and personification; Bernard Comrie
9. Relating narrative events in translation; Dan I. Slobin
10. Why do we need evaluation devices anyway?; Yeshayahu Shen
11. On interpreting: A tutorial; Rachel Gioba

II. A Developmental Perspective On Language And Discourse
12. Teaching and artificial life; Tzur Sayag and Sidney StraussEarly Language Acquisition And Emergent Literacy
13. Resultant states in early language acquisition; Eve V. Clark
14. The acquisition of subordination: From preconjunctionals to later use; Sharon Armon-Lotem
15. The emergence of expressive options in early child language: A constructivist account; Edy Veneziano
16. Children's names contribute to early literacy: A linguistic and a social perspective; Iris Levin and Dorit Aram
17. What Little Red Riding Hood tells us about Italian children's writing; Daniela Fabbretti and Clotilde PontecorvoNarrative Development In The School Years
18. Role of the home context in relations between narrative abilities and literacy practices; Ayhan Aksu-Koç
19. 'I will tell you the whole true story now': Sequencing the past, present and future in children's conversational

Dorit Ravid is a linguist and psycholinguist working on the acquisition of Hebrew and the development of linguistic literacy at the School of Education and the Department of Communications Disorders, Tel Aviv University. She has published extensively on early and later language acquisition in Hebrew and Arabic, the nature of spelling acquisition, the development of discourse production abilities, and on language learning in special populations.