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Direct linkMontrul, Silvina; Slabakova, Roumyana – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
It has been suggested that tense and aspect distributions are very difficult to learn in a second language (L2), they are prone to fossilize universally, and their interpretive properties are subject to a critical period (Coppieters, 1987). This study focuses on the acquisition of the semantic implications of the preterite-imperfect contrast in…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Semantics
Peer reviewedMontrul, Silvina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000
This experimental study on English, Spanish, and Turkish as second languages investigates the interaction of universal principles and first language knowledge in interlanguage grammars by focusing on verbs that participate in the causative/inchoative alternation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English, Interlanguage, Language Universals, Second Language Instruction
