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Publication details [#30529]

Collins, Laura. 2002. The Roles of L1 Influence and Lexical Aspect in the Acquisition of Temporal Morphology. Language Learning 52 (1) : 43–94.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
0023-8333

Annotation

This study explores to what extent adult Francophone English second language learners' use of tense and aspect markers in past contexts, confirms the predictions of the aspect hypothesis and to what degree it shows first language influence.