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Journal of Narrative and Life History
Vol. 5:2 (1995) ► pp. 191–202
Book review

Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study
Ruth A. Berman and Dan Isaac Slobin. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.

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| Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Published online: 04 August 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.5.2.05boo
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