ABSTRACT
D an Slobin’s work has been very inuential on the thinking of the rst author since her student years, and was an important point of reference in Mimi Sinclair’s Geneva-based Genetic Psycholinguistics group where she worked for many years. What fascinated and interested the group was the importance Slobin assigned to thinking processes in language acquisition and functioning. The present work situates itself within two main strands of Dan’s inuential research in this area, namely, (1) the complex relations between language and cognition and (2) the study of narrative development as a particularly privileged vantage point from which to study these relations.
