The Primacy of Aspect: Aspectual Marking in English Interlanguage  

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Robison, Richard E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Studies in Second Language Acquisition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST Th.2001-) vol. 12 no. 3 (Sep. 1990), page 315 - 330.

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Studies of first and second language acquisition have indicated that when verbal morphemes first appear, they tend to mark aspectual distinctions in non-native-like ways. This study tested the hypothesis that in L2 acquisition, verbal morphemes initially mark lexical aspect-the temporal features inherent in the semantics of a predicate, independent of the time line-regardless of their function in the target language. To reduce the subjectivity that has weakened previous studies, operational tests-which entailed inserting a base-form verb phrase into a frame and then judging whether the result is acceptable-were used to determine lexical aspect for each of over 550 verb tokens in the corpus, based on an interlanguage sample from a native speaker of Spanish. The results of a chi-square test allow rejection of the null hypothesis-that lexical aspect and morphology are independent-at the .001 confidence level. Past marking was found to correlate with punctual aspect, -ing with durative.

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