THE ASPECT HYPOTHESIS AND THE ACQUISITION OF L2 PAST MORPHOLOGY IN THE LAST 20 YEARS A STATE-OF-THE-SCHOLARSHIP REVIEW

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 a...

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Published inStudies in second language acquisition Vol. 42; no. 5; pp. 1137 - 1167
Main Authors Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, Comajoan-Colomé, Llorenç
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Cambridge University Press 01.12.2020
Subjects
French as a second language
Hypotheses
Hypothesis Testing
Language Acquisition
Linguistic Theory
Morphemes
Morphology
Morphology (Languages)
Research Methodology
Second Language Learning
Semantics
Tense
Verbs
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Summary: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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ISSN:0272-2631
1470-1545
DOI:10.1017/S0272263120000194