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 several languages, monolingual and multilingual contexts, different scripts, as well as typical and atypical development. Inspired by the work of Liliana Tolchinsky, a leading expert in language and literacy development, a group of internationally renowned scholars offers a state-of-the-art overview of current thinking in language development in literate societies in its broadest sense.

Contributors offer a personal tribute to Liliana Tolchinsky in the opening section.

Introduction.-PART I: Early Literacy Development.- 1. Writing and spelling development: Impact of Liliana Tolchinskys 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.