Is there primacy of aspect in child L2 English?  

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Gavruseva, Elena

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2001 - ) vol. 5 no. 2 (Aug. 2002), page 109-130.
Fulltext: 2002-5,2;109-130.pdf (171.98KB)

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This article investigates whether the Aspect-before-Tense Hypothesis (Antinucci and Miller, 1976; Shirai and Andersen, 1995) accounts for the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology in child L2 English. The main question addressed is whether early uses of tense-aspect in¯ections can be analyzed as a spell-out of semantic/aspectual features of verbs (such as punctuality, telicity, durativity, etc.). The data are drawn from a detailed longitudinal study of an eight-year-old Russian-speaking child who was acquiring English as L2 in the USA. It is ®rst shown that the emergence of tense-aspect morphology patterns by aspectual verb class. However, contrary to the Aspect-before-Tense Hypothesis, it is argued that the acquisition patterns cannot be attributed to ``defective'' tense, nor do they re¯ect the spell-out of aspectual features. A new approach to the data is developed that proposes underspeci®cation of the syntactic aspectual head in early L2 child grammar.

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