The current state of the Aspect Hypothesis in first and second language acquisition: Exceptions that prove the rule

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titleThe current state of the Aspect Hypothesis in first and second language acquisition: Exceptions that prove the rule
start_date2018/04/09
schedule17h-19h
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detailsthème : Where do universals of language acquisition, processing, and disorders come from? A cross-linguistic, corpus-based approach
summaryThe Aspect Hypothesis (e.g. Andersen & Shirai 1994) predicts strong associations between telic verbs and past/perfective markers, between atelic verbs and general imperfective markers, and between activity verbs and progressive markers in L1 and L2 acquisition. I will examine conditions under which these predictions are not supported, which I will argue settles the debate on whether such associations are observed due to universal predispositions (e.g. Bickerton, 1981) or input frequency.
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