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The Role of Lexical Aspect in the Acquisition of Tense and Aspect

TESOL Quarterly, 1995
This article presents the results of a study investigating the acquisition of the simple past tense, identifies areas of difficulty, and presents an acquisitionally based approach to instruction for the problematic areas. The study, a cross-sectional investigation of 182 adult learners of English as a second language at six levels of proficiency ...
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Dudley W. Reynolds   +1 more
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Lexical aspect in English

Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 2009
Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, Vol 18 (2009): Selected Papers from the 18th International Symposium on Theoretical and Aplied Linguistics, Thessaloniki 4-6 May ...
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Cognitive aspects of lexical availability

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2006
Lexical availability measures the ease with which a word can be generated as a member of a given category. It has been developed by linguistic studies aimed, among other things, at devising a rational basis for selecting words for inclusion in dictionaries.
Natividad Hernández-Muñoz, Cristina Izura, Andrew W. Ellis   +2 more
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Computational Aspects of Lexical Functional Grammar

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2011
Abstract The area of grammar engineering has been a central and active field in computational linguistics. One of the formal frameworks used for the development of computational grammars for a large variety of languages is lexical functional grammar (LFG).
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Interaction of lexical and grammatical aspect in toddlers' language

Journal of Child Language, 2006
This study examined the effect of lexical aspect on children's imitation accuracy of English tense-aspect morphology. Thirty-five typically developing children, ages 2;4 to 3;1, imitated sentence-pairs in which the same regular verb was used once in an activity (skip on the rug) and once in an accomplishment (skip out the door).
Bonnie W, Johnson, Marc E, Fey
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Prosodic and lexical‐syntactic aspects of the therapeutic register

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2003
The current study examined features of speech addressed to younger versus older and impaired versus normal listeners and explored factors that might motivate speech modification in the therapeutic register. Ten speech-language clinicians in training were engaged in a simulated storytelling task and produced narrations to four imaginary listener groups.
Li, Sheng, Karla K, McGregor, Yi, Xu
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THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT. Ping Li and Yasuhiro Shirai. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. Pp. v + 261. $106.00 cloth. This book covers everything related to aspect in the field of language acquisition; I was amazed by how the authors managed to do this in such a clear manner in only 261 pages.
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NARRATIVE STRUCTURE AND LEXICAL ASPECT

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1998
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.
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Verbal aspects in West Greenlandic: lexical and grammatical aspects [PDF]

, 2017
In this article, lexical aspectual types in West Greenlandic are investigated in the five aspectualtypes, states, achievements, semelfactives, activities and accomplishments. It is shownthat derivational verbalizing affixes include aspectual type congruent with the lexical aspectand how the aspectual type is changed in West Greenlandic.
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Morphophonological, Phonosyntactic and Lexical-Semantic Aspects of Lexical Stress in Spanish

Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching, 2014
This article reviews the most important features of stress in Spanish through the analysis of its main lexical patterns and its realization in the nominal and verbal paradigms, as well as at the phonosyntactic and lexical-semantic levels for the purpose of language learning.
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