Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1: Relational coherence
5. The comprehension of coherence relations in expository texts at the age of 10 and 12 11
6. Short sentences, easy to read? Effects of connectives and layout on text comprehension by beginning readers 41
7. Explicit coherence relations in children’s and adults’ spoken narratives: the importance of und for the acquisition of German connectives 57
8. Part 2: Referential coherence
9. Text organization in typically developing bilinguals and bilinguals at risk of DLD: what is different and how language independent is it? 85
10. Referential coherence: Children’s understanding of pronoun anaphora. Insights from mono- and bilingual language acquisition 105
11. Reference in French and German: A developmental perspective 139
12. The use of pronouns as a developmental factor in early Russian language acquisition 171
13. Index 207