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THE ASPECT HYPOTHESIS AND THE ACQUISITION OF L2 PAST MORPHOLOGY IN THE LAST 20 YEARS

A STATE-OF-THE-SCHOLARSHIP REVIEW

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Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Open the ORCID record for Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig [Opens in a new window]  and
Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé Open the ORCID record for Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé [Opens in a new window]
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig*
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Indiana University
Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé
Affiliation:
University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia
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*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. Email: bardovi@indiana.edu
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Abstract

Twenty years ago, a state-of-the-art review in SSLA marked the coming of age of the study of temporality in second language acquisition. This was followed by three monographs on tense and aspect the next year. This article presents a state-of-the-scholarship review of the last 20 years of research addressing the aspect hypothesis (AH) (Andersen, 1991, 2002; Andersen & Shirai, 1994, 1996), the most tested hypothesis in L2 temporality research. The first section of the article gives an overview of the AH and examines its central tenets, and then explores the results of empirical studies that test the hypothesis. The second section considers studies that have investigated four crucial variables in the acquisition of temporality and the testing of the AH. The third section discusses theoretically motivated areas of future research within the framework of the hypothesis.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 42 , Issue 5 , December 2020 , pp. 1137 - 1167
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The review in this article earned an Open Materials badge for transparent practices. The materials are available at https://www.iris-database.org/iris/app/home/detail?id=york%3a937808&ref=search An earlier version of Section 3 was presented as “The Aspect Hypothesis Revisited: Theoretically Motivated Versus General Questions” at TAML2 (Tense, Aspect, Mood in L2) at the University of Huelva, November 2019.

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