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Llorenç Comajoan
31-43 (complete pdf)
This article reviews beginner data in the second language acquisition of Romance perfective and imperfective morphology in light of the aspect hypothesis and the default marker of past tense hypothesis. According to the aspect hypothesis, perfective morphology emerges before imperfective morphology, and it emerges in telic predicates. The default tense hypothesis argues that classroom learners use perfective morphology as a default marker of past tense (independent from lexico-aspectual characteristics). A review of Spanish, French, and Catalan second language acquisition data produced in similar settings provided evidence for the aspect hypothesis but also for variable results according to tasks and individual learners.
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Selected Proceedings of the 6th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages
edited by David Eddington
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-404-1 library binding
v + 149 pages
publication date: 2005
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA