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"Then the old woman said, 'Ruthie, I have a cake and some cookies baking in the oven. They may be almost done. I am getting old and feeble. It hurts me to bend over. Would you kindly open the oven door, lean in, and see if the cake and cookies are done?"

Ruthie opened the oven door and stuck her head way inside while the woman stood behind her peering over her shoulder.

Grandpa was so frightened that he closed his eyes and covered them with his hands. He could not bear to watch."

When six-year old Ruthie, embarked on an adventure with her grandfather, she got more than she bargained...

This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studies 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 addresses the issue of how the structural properties and rhetorical preferences of different native languages - English German, Spanish, Hebrew and Turkish - impinge on narrative abilities across different phases of development.