The Aspect Hypothesis (AH) (Andersen 1986, 1991) suggests an eight-stage development of the Spanish tense–aspect system by English learners in which tenses progressively mark verb categories. The current paper, which presents some of the main findings from Labeau (2005), explores the relevance of the AH to an acquisitional setting other than that for which it was developed. Specifically, it tests the four tenets of the AH, as described by Shirai and Kurono (1998) against data from the acquisition of the French tense/aspect system by advanced learners of French in a tutored environment. It compares the use of French verbal morphology by advanced Anglophone learners with a control group of native speakers engaging in a variety of tasks: (1) oral and written narratives (2) a grammar cloze-test and (3) a written editing task. Having shown that the basic hypothesis is unable to account for the development of advanced French, the study tests an expanded version of the AH (Andersen 2002) and suggests further factors to take into account in the description of advanced stages of tense–aspect acquisition.
Vallerossa, Francesco, Anna Gudmundson, Anna Bergström & Camilla Bardel
2023. Learning aspect in Italian as additional language. The role of second languages. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 61:3 ► pp. 1139 ff.
Fang, Shaohua & Yi Xu
2022. Processing and acquisition of temporality in L2 Mandarin Chinese: Effects of grammatical and lexical aspects. Frontiers in Psychology 13
Salaberry, M. Rafael
2021. Expanding the Definition of Aspect in L2 Acquisition: Assessing Advanced Levels of Competence to Understand Aspectual Knowledge. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 87 ► pp. 7 ff.
Thomas, Anita
2021. Input Issues in the Development of L2 French Morphosyntax. Languages 6:1 ► pp. 34 ff.
Vallerossa, Francesco
2021. The Role of Linguistic Typology, Target Language Proficiency and Prototypes in Learning Aspectual Contrasts in Italian as Additional Language. Languages 6:4 ► pp. 184 ff.
Vallerossa, Francesco
2022. ‘I think mangiò might be passé simple’: exploring multilingual learners’ reflections on past tense verb morphology. International Journal of Multilingualism► pp. 1 ff.
2020. The acquisition of aspect in a second language,
Diaubalick, Tim & Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
2019. The strength of L1 effects on tense and aspect: How German learners of L2 Spanish deal with acquisitional problems. Language Acquisition 26:3 ► pp. 282 ff.
2017. Investigating the teaching of Chinese aspect markers 'zai', 'zhe', 'le' and 'guo'. Researching and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language 2:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Howard, Martin
2015. At the Interface between Sociolinguistic and Grammatical Development: The Expression of Futurity in L2 French. Arborescences :5 ► pp. 97 ff.
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