Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study

by Ruth A. Berman

Book Overview

This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studied the development of linguistic form/function relations in narrative discourse. It is unique in the extent of data which it analyzes--more than 250 texts from children and adults speaking five different languages--and in its crosslinguistic, typological focus. It is the first book to address the issue of how the structural properties and rhetorical preferences of different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138984914
• ISBN13: 9781138984912
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 764 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"