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NARRATIVE STRUCTURE AND LEXICAL ASPECT

Conspiring Factors in Second Language Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Abstract

Two hypotheses regarding the distribution of emergent tense-aspect morphology in SLA have been proposed: the aspect hypothesis, which claims the distribution of interlanguage verbal morphology is determined by lexical aspectual class, and the discourse hypothesis, which claims it is determined by narrative structure. Recent studies have tested and supported both hypotheses individually. This study expands the investigation to include an analysis of both narrative structure and lexical aspectual class in a single corpus comprising 74 narratives (37 oral and written pairs) produced by adult learners of English as a second language at various proficiency levels. The results suggest that both hypotheses are necessary to account for the distribution of verbal morphology in interlanguage.

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Research Article
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1998 , pp. 471 - 508
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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