Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Acknowledgments; 2. Transcription and coding conventions; 3. Typology, acquisition, and development: The view from Israeli Hebrew (by Berman, Ruth A.); 4. Paths and stages in acquisition of the phonological word in Hebrew (by Ben-David, Avivit); 5. Phonological development in Israeli Hebrew-learning infants and toddlers: Perception and production (by Keren-Portnoy, Tamar); 6. Foundations of the early root category: Analyses of linguistic input to Hebrewspeaking children (by Ravid, Dorit); 7. Development of Hebrew derivational morphology from preschool to adolescence (by Ben-Zvi, Galit); 8. Lexical development in Hebrew: From first words to a literate lexicon (by Seroussi, Batia); 9. The nature of CDS in Hebrew: Frequent frames in a morphologically rich language (by Arnon, Inbal); 10. From opacity to transparency: Transitional categories in early Hebrew grammar (by Lustigman, Lyle); 11. Development of intra- and inter-clausal dependency in Hebrew (by Nir, Bracha); 12. Expression of temporality in Hebrew narratives written by deaf adolescents (by Kupersmitt, Judy); 13. Early development of written language in Hebrew (by Tolchinsky, Liliana); 14. Metalinguistic awareness in reading Hebrew L2 (by Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor); 15. Author Index; 16. Subject Index
