Book Language and Its Implications for Children’s Language, Literacy, and Development

The onset of literacy marks a significant change in children’s development. Written language is more complex than everyday conversation, and even books targeted at preschoolers contain varied words syntax child-directed speech does. We review the nature content book language, focusing on recent large-scale corpus analyses that systematically compared written spoken language. argue exposure to provides opportunities for learning syntactic constructions are only rarely encountered that, turn, this rich experience drives further developments literacy. Moreover, we speculate range, variety, depth, sophistication provide key input promotes social emotional Becoming literate changes things, researchers need better understand how why reading shapes people’s minds becomes associated with range skills abilities across life span.