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