The acquisition of tense and aspect: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish
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Resumo: | This paper seeks to understand how the categories tense and aspect are represented in the mental grammars of typically-developing children. Past work has found that English- and French-learning children as old as 6 years of age often use tense marking to convey aspect, conflating the two categories. In contrast, young Spanish speakers appear to treat the two categories as distinct by age 3. We confirm that native learners of Spanish dissociate tense and aspect by 3 years of age and suggest that they may even do so as early as 2;5 or before. We find similar results in Portuguese. We further demonstrate, in line with past work, that the use of aspect marking at this young age might be driven, in part, by differences in lexical telicity. |
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The acquisition of tense and aspect: Evidence from Portuguese and SpanishTense. Aspect. Language Acquisition. Portuguese. Spanish.This paper seeks to understand how the categories tense and aspect are represented in the mental grammars of typically-developing children. Past work has found that English- and French-learning children as old as 6 years of age often use tense marking to convey aspect, conflating the two categories. In contrast, young Spanish speakers appear to treat the two categories as distinct by age 3. We confirm that native learners of Spanish dissociate tense and aspect by 3 years of age and suggest that they may even do so as early as 2;5 or before. We find similar results in Portuguese. We further demonstrate, in line with past work, that the use of aspect marking at this young age might be driven, in part, by differences in lexical telicity. Editora PUC Minas2018-12-21info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/cadernoscespuc/article/view/1876910.5752/P.2358-3231.n33p36-49Cadernos CESPUC de Pesquisa Série Ensaios; n. 33 (2018): Teoria gerativa: perspectivas e desafios; 36-492358-3231reponame:Cadernos CESPUC de Pesquisainstname:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas)instacron:PUC_MINSenghttp://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/cadernoscespuc/article/view/18769/14116Copyright (c) 2018 Cadernos CESPUC de Pesquisa Série Ensaiosinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessMorato, Rodrigo AltairZiegler, Jayden2019-11-18T18:33:34Zoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/18769Revistahttp://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/cadernoscespuc/indexhttp://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/cadernoscespuc/oaicespuc@pucminas.br||cespuc@pucminas.br2358-32311516-4020opendoar:2019-11-18T18:33:34Cadernos CESPUC de Pesquisa - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas)false |
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The acquisition of tense and aspect: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish |
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The acquisition of tense and aspect: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish |
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The acquisition of tense and aspect: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish Morato, Rodrigo Altair Tense. Aspect. Language Acquisition. Portuguese. Spanish. |
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The acquisition of tense and aspect: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish |
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The acquisition of tense and aspect: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish |
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The acquisition of tense and aspect: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish |
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The acquisition of tense and aspect: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish |
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The acquisition of tense and aspect: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish |
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Morato, Rodrigo Altair |
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Morato, Rodrigo Altair Ziegler, Jayden |
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Ziegler, Jayden |
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Morato, Rodrigo Altair Ziegler, Jayden |
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Tense. Aspect. Language Acquisition. Portuguese. Spanish. |
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Tense. Aspect. Language Acquisition. Portuguese. Spanish. |
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This paper seeks to understand how the categories tense and aspect are represented in the mental grammars of typically-developing children. Past work has found that English- and French-learning children as old as 6 years of age often use tense marking to convey aspect, conflating the two categories. In contrast, young Spanish speakers appear to treat the two categories as distinct by age 3. We confirm that native learners of Spanish dissociate tense and aspect by 3 years of age and suggest that they may even do so as early as 2;5 or before. We find similar results in Portuguese. We further demonstrate, in line with past work, that the use of aspect marking at this young age might be driven, in part, by differences in lexical telicity. |
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2018 |
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