Perspectives 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. 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Printed in the United States of America. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 SPIN 11374787 springeronline.com 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 v vi Contents 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] ix x Listofcontributors 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] Listofcontributors xi 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]