Effects of lexical ıtems and construction types in English and Turkish character ıntroductions in elicited narrative

Abstract

The beginning of a story has serious implications for how it unfolds. This is why I seem to clearly remember my first three encounters with Dan Slobin. My first meeting with him was in the summer of 1988 in Üsküdar, Istanbul, as I was preparing to apply for graduate school in the United States. A friend of my family took me over to his home. Neither he nor I said much that day, except we did talk about me not having taken any linguistics and how hard it is for international students to financially survive in Berkeley. I am not so sure now whether he actually told me these things, but I left his place with such ideas in my mind.