Written and Spoken Language Development across the Lifespan Essa

This multidisciplinary volume offers insights on oral and written language development and how it takes place in literate societies. The volume covers topics from early to late language development, its interaction with literacy practices, including sever

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Joan Perera Melina Aparici Elisa Rosado Naymé Salas Editors

Written and Spoken Language Development across the Lifespan Essays in Honour of Liliana Tolchinsky

Literacy Studies Volume 11

Series Editor R. Malatesha Joshi, Texas A&M University, USA Editorial Board Linnea Ehri, CUNY Graduate School, USA George Hynd, Purdue University, USA Richard Olson, University of Colorado, USA Pieter Reitsma, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rebecca Treiman, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge, UK Jane Oakhill, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Philip Seymour, University of Dundee, UK Guinevere Eden, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA Catherine McBride Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

While language defines humanity, literacy defines civilization. Understandably, illiteracy or difficulties in acquiring literacy skills have become a major concern of our technological society. A conservative estimate of the prevalence of literacy problems would put the figure at more than a billion people in the world. Because of the seriousness of the problem, research in literacy acquisition and its breakdown is pursued with enormous vigor and persistence by experts from diverse backgrounds such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and education. This, of course, has resulted in a plethora of data, and consequently it has become difficult to integrate this abundance of information into a coherent body because of the artificial barriers that exist among different professional specialties. The purpose of this series is to bring together the available research studies into a coherent body of knowledge. Publications in this series are of interest to educators, clinicians and research scientists in the above-mentioned specialties. Some of the titles suitable for the Series are: fMRI, brain imaging techniques and reading skills, orthography and literacy; and research based techniques for improving decoding, vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension skills.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7206

Joan Perera • Melina Aparici Elisa Rosado • Naymé Salas Editors

Written and Spoken Language Development across the Lifespan Essays in Honour of Liliana Tolchinsky

Editors Joan Perera

Melina Aparici

Departament de Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura Universitat de Barcelona

Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Evolutiva i de l’Educació Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona, Spain

Elisa Rosado

Naymé Salas

Departament de Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura

Departament de Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura, i de les Ciències Socials

Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

ISSN 2214-000X ISSN 2214-0018 (electronic) Literacy Studies ISBN 978-3-319-21135-0 ISBN 978-3-319-21136-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21136-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015957060 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publish