Acquisition and development of Hebrew : from infancy to adolescence / edited by Ruth A. Berman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berman, Ruth Aronson, editor.

Series:

Trends in language acquisition research ; v. 19.

Trends in language acquisition research ; volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrew language--Acquisition.

Hebrew language.

Language awareness in children.

Speech perception in children.

Physical Description:

xvii, 404 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

Summary:

"The volume addresses developing knowledge and use of Hebrew from the dual perspective of typologically specific factors and of shared cross-linguistic trends, aimed at providing an overview of acquisition in a single language from infancy to adolescence while also shedding light on key issues in the field as a whole. Essentially non-partisan in approach, the collection includes distinct approaches to language and language acquisition (formal-universalist, pragmatic-usage based, cognitive-constructivist) and deals with a range of topics not often addressed within a single volume (phonological perception and production, inflectional and derivational morphology, simple-clause structure and complex syntax, early and later literacy, writing systems), with data deriving from varied research methodologies (interactive conversations and extended discourse, adult input and child output, longitudinal and cross-sectional corpora, structured elicitations). Each chapter provides background information on Hebrew-specific facets of the topic of concern, but typically avoids ethno-centricity by relating to more general issues in the domain. The book should thus prove interesting and instructive for linguists, psychologists, and educators, and for members of the child language research community both within and beyond the confines of Hebrew-language expertise"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Acknowledgments p. vii

2 Transcription and coding conventions p. ix

3 Typology, acquisition, and development p. 1 / Ruth A. Berman

4 Paths and stages in acquisition of the phonological word in Hebrew p. 39 / Avivit Ben-David; Outi Bat-El

5 Phonological development in Israeli Hebrew-learning infants and toddlers p. 69 / Tamar Keren-Portnoy; Osnat Segal

6 Foundations of the early root category p. 95 / Dorit Ravid; O. Ashkenazi; Ronit Levie; G. Ben-Zadok; T. Grunwald; Steven Gillis

7 Development of Hebrew derivational morphology from preschool to adolescence p. 135 / Galit Ben-Zvi; Ronit Levie

8 Lexical development in Hebrew p. 175 / Batia Seroussi

9 The nature of CDS in Hebrew p. 201 / Inbal Arnon

10 From opacity to transparency p. 225 / Lyle Lustigman

11 Development of intra- and inter-clausal dependency in Hebrew p. 259 / Bracha Nir

12 Expression of temporality in Hebrew narratives written by deaf adolescents p. 295 / Judy Kupersmitt; Irit Meir

13 Early development of written language in Hebrew p. 325 / Liliana Tolchinsky; Ana Sandbank

14 Metalinguistic awareness in reading Hebrew L2 p. 353 / Elinor Saiegh-Haddad; Ayman Jayusy

15 Author Index p. 387

16 Subject Index p. 395.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Acquisition and development of Hebrew.

ISBN:

9789027244093

902724409X

OCLC:

944085421