Written and Spoken Language Development across the Lifespan

Introduction by Joan Perera, Melina Aparici, Elisa Rosado, & Naymé Salas.-PART I: Early Literacy Development.- 1. Writing and spelling development: Impact of Liliana Tolchinsky’s Research over 30 years by Malatesha Joshi.- 2. Mother-child Joint Writing as a Learning Activity by Dorit Aram and Iris Levin.- 3.  The Language of Affect in Bilingual Child Directed Speech by Marta Shiro.- 4. Home and School Predictors of Reading Achievement in Linguistically Diverse Learners in the Intermediate Primary Grades by Ludo Verhoeven and Willy van Elsäcker.- 5. Development of Literacy and Notational Knowledge. Prediction of Literacy Development Difficulties through Graphomotor Measures in Grade 1 by Olga Soler, Cristina Sotoca Lasheras, Yago Ramis, and Judit Castellà Mate.- 6. Syllabic Processes in the Initial Stages of Writing Development by Sofía A. Vernon.- 7. Writing as a Domain of Knowledge for both Children and Researchers by Anna Sandbank.- 8. Perspectives on Spoken and Written Language: Evidence from English Speaking Children by Judy Reilly and Lara Polse.- 9. The Development of Narrative Discourse in French by 5 to 10 years old Children: Some Insights from a Conversational Interaction Method by Edy Veneziano.- 10. The Relationships between Oral and Written Sentence Generation in English Speaking Children: The Role of Language and Literacy Skills by Julie Dockrell and Vincent Connelly.- PART II: Later Literacy Development.- 11. Linguistic Literacy and Later Language Development by Ruth Berman.- 12. Later Development of Relative Clauses across Discourse Genres and Modalities of Production by Melina Aparici, Elisa Rosado, and Joan Perera.- 13. When Causation meets Motion: Motion Events at the Interface between Coherence and Cohesion in Narrative Development by Judy Kupersmitt.- 14. The Development of Referential choice in Spanish Narratives among School-age Children and Adolescents by Aurora Bel and Milagros Albert.- 15. Categories of Referential Content in Expository Discussions of Conflict by Bracha Nir and Irit Katzenberger.- 16. A Developmental Perspective on the units of Written French by Emilie Ailhaud, Florence Chenu, and Harriet Jisa.- 17. Linguistic Correlates of Text Quality in Spanish from Childhood to Adulthood by Naymé Salas, Anna Llauradó, Cristina Castillo, Mariona Taulé, and Toni Martí.- 18. Sentence Generation in Children with and without Problems of Written Expression by Barbara Arfé and Eleonora Pizzocaro.- 19. Top-down Measures in 7th Grade Writing: The Effects of Genre and SES by Dorit Ravid, Tsila Shalom, Elitzur Dattner, Irit Katzenberger, and Guy Sha'shoua.- Personal Tributes