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.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Education
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