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Multilingual and monolingual children in the primary-level language classroom: individual differences and perceptions of foreign language learning
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Learning French in the UK setting: Policy, classroom engagement and attainable learning outcomes
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Spanish Imperfect revisited: exploring L1 influence in the reassembly of imperfective features onto new L2 forms
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Spanish Imperfect revisited: exploring L1 influence in the reassembly of imperfective features onto new L2 forms
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The importance of task variability in the design of learner corpora for SLA research
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The role of dynamic contrasts in the L2 acquisition of Spanish past tense morphology
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The role of dynamic contrasts in the L2 acquisition of Spanish past tense morphology
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The role of dynamic contrasts in the L2 acquisition of Spanish past tense morphology
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This study examines the second language acquisition of Spanish past tense morphology by three groups of English speakers (beginners, intermediates and advanced). We adopt a novel methodological approach – combining oral corpus data with controlled experimental data – in order to provide new evidence on the validity of the Lexical Aspect Hypothesis (LAH) in L2 Spanish. Data elicited through one comprehension and three oral tasks with varying degrees of experimental control show that the emergence of temporal markings is determined mainly by the dynamic/non-dynamic contrast (whether a verb is a state or an event) as beginner and intermediate speakers use Preterit with event verbs but Imperfect mainly with state verbs. One crucial finding is that although advanced learners use typical Preterit–telic associations in the least controlled oral tasks, as predicted by the LAH, this pattern is often reversed in tasks designed to include non-prototypical (and infrequent) form–meaning contexts. The results of the comprehension task also show that the Preterit-event and Imperfect-state associations observed in the production data determine the interpretation that learners assign to the Preterit and the Imperfect as well. These results show that beginner and intermediate learners treat event verbs (achievements, accomplishments and activities) in Spanish as a single class that they associate with Preterit morphology. We argue that dynamicity contrasts, and not telicity, affect learners’ use of past tense forms during early stages of acquisition.
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P Philology. Linguistics
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728912000363
http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/8092/
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Testing the predictions of the feature-assembly hypothesis: evidence from the L2 acquisition of Spanish aspect morphology
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Testing the predictions of the feature-assembly hypothesis: evidence from the L2 acquisition of Spanish aspect orphology
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Testing the predictions of the Feature Assembly Hypothesis (FAH): evidence from the L2 acquisition of Spanish aspect morphology
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