Written and Spoken Language Development across the Lifespan

Introduction.-PART I: Early Literacy Development.- 1. Writing and spelling development: Impact of Liliana Tolchinsky's Research over 30 years.- 2. Mother-child Joint Writing as a Learning Activity.- 3. The Language of Affect in Bilingual Child Directed Speech.- 4. Home and School Predictors of Reading Achievement in Linguistically Diverse Learners in the Intermediate Primary Grades.- 5. Development of Literacy and Notational Knowledge. Prediction of Literacy Development Difficulties through Graphomotor Measures in Grade 1.- 6. Syllabic Processes in the Initial Stages of Writing Development.- 7. Writing as a Domain of Knowledge for both Children and Researchers.- 8. Perspectives on Spoken and Written Language: Evidence from English Speaking Children.- 9. The Development of Narrative Discourse in French by 5 to 10 years old Children: Some Insights from a Conversational Interaction Method.- 10. The Relationships between Oral and Written Sentence Generation in English Speaking Children: The Role of Language and Literacy Skills.- PART II: Later Literacy Development.- 11. Linguistic Literacy and Later Language Development.- 12. Later Development of Relative Clauses across Discourse Genres and Modalities of Production.- 13. When Causation meets Motion: Motion Events at the Interface between Coherence and Cohesion in Narrative Development.- 14. The Development of Referential choice in Spanish Narratives among School-age Children and Adolescents.- 15. Categories of Referential Content in Expository Discussions of Conflict.- 16. A Developmental Perspective on the units of Written French.- 17. Linguistic Correlates of Text Quality in Spanish from Childhood to Adulthood.- 18. Sentence Generation in Children with and without Problems of Written Expression.- 19. Top-down Measures in 7th Grade Writing: The Effects of Genre and SES.- Personal Tributes.