Although SLA research has extensively investigated the role of lexical aspect in L2 acquisition of tense-aspect marking, the role of L1 is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates the effect of cross-linguistic variation in lexical aspect and explores how the learning of lexical aspect… read more
The current study investigates the roles of lexical aspect and phonological saliency in second language acquisition of English past tense morphology. It also explores whether the effects of these factors are affected by data elicitation tasks and learners’ L2 proficiency. We created a learner… read more
The current study investigates the roles of lexical aspect and phonological saliency in second language acquisition of English past tense morphology. It also explores whether the effects of these factors are affected by data elicitation tasks and learners’ L2 proficiency. We created a learner… read more
Although the research on the acquisition of tense-aspect markers has been extensively pursued since the 1970s, the focus of these studies has mostly been on particular grammatical markers (such as past tense markers, perfective aspect markers, progressive aspect markers), and they have tended to… read more
Addressing two hypotheses, the Aspect Hypothesis (Andersen & Shirai 1994; Shirai & Andersen 1995) and the Verb-Island Hypothesis (Tomasello 1992), this study analyzed whether the acquisition of third person singular present -s (3S) follows the same path as other tense-aspect markers, such as -ing,… read more
This chapter reviews semantic bias observed in the acquisition of grammatical categories, and examines its theoretical implications. It first reviews the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology, in particular of English, and proposes a model of grammatical development called the “input-based… read more
Comparing universal against language-specific factors, this chapter examines the roles of lexical aspect, morphological regularity, and transfer in the developmental emergence of past and progressive morphology among four adult learners of English from Italian and Punjabi L1 backgrounds. The… read more
This paper surveys the progressive and resultative morphology of Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English, and argues that although the distinction between perfective and imperfective is the most fundamental of aspectual distinctions, analysis of these languages reveals that this distinction can… read more