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Peer reviewedRobison, Richard E. – Applied Linguistics, 1995
This article examined the aspect hypothesis, which asserts that verb inflections in early interlanguage systems function primarily as markers of lexical aspect independent of the target language. A study of interviews conducted with 26 Puerto Rican college students grouped into 4 proficiency levels found that the association of inflections with…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Interlanguage
