Relating Events in Narrative - A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study

About the author

Ruth A. Berman Department of Linguistics Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, Israel. Dan I. Slobin Department of Psychology University of California Berkeley, CA.

Summary

This is a result of a research project that studied the development of linguistic form in narrative discourse. The analysis addresses the issue of how the structural properties and rhetorical preferences of different languages impinge on narrative abilities across different phases of development.

Product details

• Authors: Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Michael Bamberg, Ruth A. Berman, Lisa Dasinger, Virginia Marchman, Yonni Neeman, Philip C. Rodkin, Eugenia Sebastián, Dan Isaac Slobin, Cecile Toupin, Tom Trabasso, Christiane von Stutterheim
• Assisted by: Ruth A. Berman (Editor), Berman Ruth A. (Editor), Dan Isaac Slobin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1994
• EAN: 9780805814354
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-1435-4
• No. of pages: 764
• Weight: 1570 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, german, Spanish, turkish, Historical & comparative linguistics, Hebrew, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc