Table Of ContentPerspectives on
Language and
Language
Development
Essays in Honor of
Ruth A. Berman
Edited by:
Dorit Diskin Ravid
Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot
Kluwer Academic Publishers
PERSPECTIVESONLANGUAGE
ANDLANGUAGEDEVELOPMENT
ESSAYSINHONOROFRUTHA.BERMAN
PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE
AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
ESSAYSINHONOROFRUTHA.BERMAN
Editors
DORITDISKINRAVIDANDHAVABAT-ZEEVSHYLDKROT
TelAvivUniversity,Israel
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON
Dorit Diskin Ravid
Hava bat-Zeev Shyldkrot
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Perspectives on language and language development: essays in honor of
Ruth A. Berman/
Dorit Diskin Ravid and Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, editors.
p. cm.
English with one contribution in French.
Bibliography of Ruth Aronson Berman’s works: p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-4020-7903-6 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 1-4020-7911-7 (ebook)
1. Linguistics. 2. Language acquisition. I. Ravid, Dorit Diskin. II.
Shyldkrot, Hava Bat-Zeev. III. Berman, Ruth Aronson.
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CONTENTS
Listofcontributors ix
ThelifeandworkofRuthA.Berman xv
RuthA.Berman’slistofpublications xix
Acknowledgements xxix
Introduction 1
I.LANGUAGEANDDISCOURSE 7
1.Cate´gorisation,grammaticalisationetlexicalisation 9
HavaBat-ZeevShyldkrot
THEHEBREWLANGUAGEINISRAEL 23
2.Parsingformswithidenticalconsonants:Hebrewreduplication 25
OutiBat-El
3.Linearfirst-timederivationofverbsandconsonantclusterpreservation
inIsraeliHebrew 35
ShmuelBolozky
4.ModernHebrewConsonantClusters 45
Ora(Rodrigue)Schwarzwald
5.TranscribingSpokenIsraeliHebrew:Preliminarynotes 61
ShlomoIzre’el
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6.FromVanitytoGrace:Acasestudyofmetaphoricalframecontacts 73
TamarSovran
7.LanguagerightsinthemultilingualsocietyofIsrael 87
ElenaShohamy
THEINTERRELATIONSOFLANGUAGEANDNARRATIVE 103
8.Grammaticalgenderandpersonification 103
BernardComrie
9.Relatingnarrativeeventsintranslation 115
DanI.Slobin
10.Whydoweneedevaluationdevicesanyway? 131
YeshayahuShen
11.Oninterpreting:Atutorial 143
RachelGiora
II.ADEVELOPMENTALPERSPECTIVEONLANGUAGE
ANDDISCOURSE 157
12.Teachingandartificiallife 159
TzurSayagandSidneyStrauss
EARLYLANGUAGEACQUISITIONANDEMERGENT LITERACY 173
13.Resultantstatesinearlylanguageacquisition 175
EveV.Clark
14.Theacquisitionofsubordination:Frompreconjunctionalstolateruse 191
SharonArmon-Lotem
15.Theemergenceofexpressiveoptionsinearlychildlanguage:Aconstructivist
account 203
EdyVeneziano
16.Children’snamescontributetoearlyliteracy:Alinguisticandasocial
perspective 219
IrisLevinandDoritAram
17.WhatLittleRedRidingHoodtellsusaboutItalianchildren’swriting 241
DanielaFabbrettiandClotildePontecorvo
NARRATIVEDEVELOPMENTINTHESCHOOLYEARS 255
18.Roleofthehomecontextinrelationsbetweennarrativeabilitiesandliteracy
practices 257
AyhanAksu-Koc¸
Contents vii
19.‘Iwilltellyouthewholetruestorynow’:Sequencingthepast,presentandfuturein
children’sconversationalnarratives 275
ShoshanaBlum-Kulka
20.PerceivingandproducingtheFrogStory 289
Kenneth Holmqvist, Jana Holsanova, Victoria Johansson and Sven
Stro¨mqvist
21.NarrativesinchildrenwithWilliamsSyndrome:Across-linguisticperspective 303
JudyReilly,JosieBernicot,StefanoVicari,AgnesLacroix,
andUrsulaBellugi
LATERLANGUAGEANDLITERACYDEVELOPMENTINTHECONTEXT
OFEXPOSITORYTEXTS 313
22.LogicalconnectorsinHebrew:howwelldoeighth-gradersmasterthem? 315
EliteOlshtainandEttyCohen
23.Thesuper-structureofwrittenexpositorytexts–Adevelopmentalperspective 327
IritKatzenberger
24.Emergenceoflinguisticcomplexityinlaterlanguagedevelopment:Evidencefrom
expositorytextconstruction 337
DoritRavid
25.Developingalternativesforindicatingdiscoursestance 357
HarrietJisa
26.Becomingproficienteducatedusersoflanguage 375
LilianaTolchinsky,ElisaRosado,MelinaAparici&JoanPerera
2NDLANGUAGEACQUISITIONANDBILINGUALISM 391
27.Task-relatedvariationintenseusageinArabic-Hebrewinterlanguage 393
RoniHenkin
28.Acquisition,attrition,andrevitalizationofHebrewin immigrantchildren 407
DoritKaufman
29.Wordclassdistinctionsinanincompletegrammar 419
MariaPolinsky
CONTEXTSOFLITERACY 435
30.Literacydevelopmentacrosslanguageboundaries 437
LudoVerhoeven
31.PerceptionsandevidenceofearlyliteracyinHebrew 453
JosephShimron
Index 473
LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS
EDITORS
DoritRavid
ConstantinerSchoolofEducationandDepartmentofCommunicationsDisorders
TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel
[email protected]
HavaBat-ZeevShyldkrot
FrenchDepartment
TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel
[email protected]
CONTRIBUTORS
SharonArmon-Lotem
EnglishDepartment
BarIlanUniversity,RamatGan,Israel
[email protected]
OutiBat-El
LinguisticsDepartment
TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel
[email protected]
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ShoshanaBlum-Kulka
DepartmentofCommunicationandSchoolofEducation
HebrewUniversity,Jerusalem,Israel
[email protected]
ShmuelBolozky
DepartmentofJudaicandNearEasternStudies
UniversityofMassachusetts
Amherst,USA
[email protected]
EveV.Clark
DepartmentofLinguistics
StanfordUniversity,California,USA
[email protected]
BernardComrie
DepartmentofLinguistics
MaxPlanckInstituteforEvolutionaryAnthropology,Leipzig,Germany
DepartmentofLinguistics
UniversityofCalifornia:SantaBarbara,USA
[email protected]
RachelGiora
LinguisticsDepartment
TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel
[email protected]
RoniHenkin
HebrewLanguageDepartment
BenGurionUniversityoftheNegev,Be’erSheva,Israel
[email protected]
ShlomoIzre’el
DepartmentofHebrewandSemiticLanguages
TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel
[email protected]
HarrietJisa
Dynamiquedulangage
Universite´ Lumie`re-Lyon2,
CNRSUMR5596,France
[email protected]
Irit,Katzenberger
SchoolofCommunicationDisorders
HadassaAcademicCollege,Jerusalem,Israel
[email protected]
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DoritKaufman
LinguisticsDepartment
StonyBrookUniversity,StateUniversityofNewYork,USA
[email protected]
AyhanAksu-Koc¸
DepartmentofPsychology
Bog˘azic¸iUniversity,˙Istanbul
Turkey
[email protected]
IrisLevin,DoritAram
ConstantinerSchoolofEducation
TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel
[email protected]
[email protected]
EliteOlshtain
SchoolofEducation
HebrewUniversity,Jerusalem,Israel
EttyCohen
KayeTeachers’College,Be’erSheva,Israel
[email protected]
MariaPolinsky
LinguisticsDepartment
UniversityofCaliforniaatSanDiego
SanDiego,USA
[email protected]
ClotildePontecorvo
DanielaFabbretti
UniversityofRome“LaSapienza”
Rome,Italy
[email protected]
JudyReilly,SanDiegoStateUniversity,LaboratoiredePsychologieLangageet
Cognition(LaCo)-
Universite´ dePoitiers-CNRS,France
JosieBernicot,LaboratoiredePsychologieLangageetCognition(LaCo)-
Universite´ dePoitiers–CNRS,France
StefanoVicari,OespedaleBambinoGesu` eSantaMarinella,Rome,Italy
Agne`sLacroix,LaboratoiredePsychologieLangageetCognition(LaCo)-
Universite´ dePoitiers–CNRS,France
UrsulaBellugi,LaboratoryforCognitiveNeurosciences
SalkInstituteforBiologicalStudies,LaJolla,California,USA
[email protected]