(1) Passives and Alternatives in Children's Narratives in English, Spanish, German and Turkish and (2) Factors of Language Typology in the Crosslinguistic Study of Acquisition

Authors:
Slobin, Dan I.
Technical Report Identifier: COGSCI-90-66
August 1990

Abstract: (1) A functionalist approach to the development of the passive and (2) Typological characteristics influence the structure of narrative.