Discourse Motivations for Some Cognitive Acquisition Principles
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This paper offers an alternative interpretation for what has been called the defective tense hypothesis, the primacy of aspect hypothesis, or simply the aspect hypothesis in the literature on first and second language acquisition of tense and aspect. The aspect hypothesis states that first and second language learners will initially be influenced by the inherent semantic aspect of verbs or predicates in the acquisition of tense and aspect markers associated with or affixed to these verbs. Our account focuses on the observation that adult native speakers also appear to adhere to this primacy of inherent semantic aspect in the relative quantitative distribution of tense-aspect markers in their speech. We argue that a small set of cognitive operating principles and the notion of prototypicality account for this behavior in learners. Moreover, we argue that these principles are a consequence of how learners and native speakers alike organize information and their perspectives on it in ongoing discourse.
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Within each morpheme, some forms are acquired earlier than others depending on the lemmas the morpheme is attached to.
“Within each morpheme, some forms are acquired earlier than others depending on the lemmas the morpheme is attached to, as, for instance, investigations of the aspect hypothesis demonstrated (e.g., Andersen & Shirai, 1994).”
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- Authors
- Andersen, R. W., & Shirai, Y.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Daito Bunka University (JP)
- ORCID
- Shirai, Yasuhiro
- Venue
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1994-06
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 133-156
- ISSN
- 0272-2631 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-1545
- OpenAlex
- W2088303151
- Cited by
- 346
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 31.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Keywords
- aspect hypothesis, prototypicality, discourse structure, first language acquisition, second language acquisition
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