<p>The study examined the relationships between emotion comprehension and language development among 989 children aged 61–80 months (506 boys) from families of middle socio-economic status (SES). Children were asked to create a story based on a series of pictures and were tested on their active vocabulary (verbal fluency test) and with the test of emotion comprehension (TEC). We analyzed the difference between effect of such language skills measures as verbal fluency and narrative skills on emotion comprehension development, and how they were interrelated. Significant correlations between emotion comprehension and language development aspects were analyzed with regression model. The results revealed that age and non-verbal intelligence were significant factors in both language and emotion comprehension development; furthermore, emotion comprehension development is more strongly interrelated with narratives’ production than with active vocabulary volume. The paper concludes with implications for the development of narrative skills and provides fresh avenues for future research that implies the analysis of the theory of mind as an intermediate factor between emotional and language development.</p>