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Tense or Aspect?: A Review of Initial Past Tense Marking and Task Conditions for Beginning Classroom Learners of Spanish
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Bonilla, Carrie L. – Hispania, 2013
This essay contributes to the research on the emergence of tense/aspect morphology by reviewing the results and task conditions of studies supporting either the Aspect Hypothesis (AH) or the Default Past Tense Hypothesis (DPTH) for second language (L2) learners of Spanish. The AH has found that past marking emerges based on inherent aspectual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Morphemes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Some Verbs Are More Perfect than Others: Why Learners Have Difficulty with "ser" and "estar" and What It Means for Instruction
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VanPatten, Bill – Hispania, 2010
In this essay, I apply current linguistic theory to reanalyze earlier research on the acquisition of "ser" and "estar" (e.g., VanPatten 1985, 1987). Using insights from Roby and Schmitt ("Semi-Copulas"), for example, I argue that the acquisition of the copular verbs is an issue of the acquisition of their aspectual properties (see also Bruhn de…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Linguistic Theory, Spanish