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The Acquisition of Tense-Aspect: Converging Evidence from Corpora and Telicity Ratings
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Wulff, Stefanie; Ellis, Nick C.; Romer, Ute; Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Leblanc, Chelsea J. – Modern Language Journal, 2009
The aspect hypothesis (Andersen & Shirai, 1994) proposes that language learners are initially influenced by the inherent semantic aspect in the acquisition of tense and aspect (TA) morphology. Perfective past emerges earlier with accomplishments and achievements and progressive with activities. Although this hypothesis has been extensively…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning