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- Title
Tense-aspect acquisition meets typology.
- Authors
BERTINETTO, Pier Marco
- Abstract
In this paper, the problem of tense-aspect acquisition is addressed within a typologically-broad view. As opposed to the now prevailing universalistic approach, dictating the language-independent triggering role of aspect/ actionality, it is suggested that the morphological set-up of the target language guides the acquisition process, with overtly marked categories as the leading factor. Initial evidence for this typologically-oriented approach stems from the acquisition data of three Italian children and an Austrian- German child, specifically from: (a) the interplay of actionality and aspect; (b) the respective acquisition timing of temporal adverbs and past-/futurereferring tenses; (c) the correlation of lexical spurt and past-tense acquisition.
- Subjects
TENSE (Grammar); LINGUISTIC typology; ACQUISITION of data; ADVERBS (Grammar); ACRONYMS; SEMANTICS; LANGUAGE acquisition
- Publication
Cahiers Chronos, 2012, Vol 25, p45
- ISSN
1384-5357
- Publication type
Article