The acquisition of the present / edited by Dalila Ayoun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ayoun, Dalila, 1963- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition--Research.

Language acquisition.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Aspect.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first edited volume that tackles the acquisition of the present (tense, aspect, temporality), an under-researched area, particularly compared to the acquisition of past temporality. The first two chapters focus on the L1 acquisition of English from the perspective of the Aspect hypothesis and the Verb-Island hypothesis Wang & Shirai) and the L1 acquisition of French from the perspective of the zero-tense hypothesis (Demirdache & Lungu). The remaining chapters tackle the L2 acquisition of English (Liszka, Al-Thubaiti, Vraciu), French (Ayoun, Saillard), Spanish (Gabriele et al.), Russian (Martelle) and Japanese (Shirai & Li) by learners of different L1s (French, English, Arabic, Chinese and Korean), testing various semantic and syntactic hypotheses. The last chapter presents a summary of the findings, and offers a few conclusions as well as broad directions for future research.

Contents:

Intro

The Acquisition of the Present

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the contributors and editor

The development of third person singular present form -s

1. Introduction

2. The Aspect Hypothesis vs. the Verb-Island Hypothesis

2.1 The Aspect Hypothesis

2.1.1 Grammatical aspect vs. inherent lexical aspect

2.1.2 Aspect Hypothesis

2.2 Verb-Island Hypothesis

3. Previous research of the acquisition of third person singular present form -s (3S)

4. Present research

4.1 Research questions

4.2 Methodology

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion and directions for future research

References

Zero-present under past in child French

1. Simultaneous present across languages

2. The zero-tense account of simultaneous construals in English: Kratzer (1998)

3. A uniform account for simultaneous readings across languages

4. Previous acquisition data

4.1 The acquisition of sot: Hollebrandse (2000)

4.2 The Ø-tense hypothesis in child language: Demirdache &amp

Lungu (2009, 2011)

5. Ways to express futurity in embedded contexts in French

6. Futurity in embedded contexts in French child language

6.1 Experiment 1

6.1.1 Participants

6.1.2 Design and materials

6.1.3 Procedure

6.1.4 Predictions

6.1.5 Results

6.1.6 Discussion

6.2 Experiment 2

6.2.1 Participants

6.2.2 Procedure

6.2.3 Results and discussion

7. General discussion and conclusion

8. Directions for future research

The L2 acquisition of the English present simple - Present progressive distinction

2. Theoretical considerations

2.1 Linguistic background

2.2 Relevance Theory

3. Research questions

4. The Study

4.1 Participants

4.2. Experimental Tasks

5. Results

6. Discussion.

7. Conclusion and directions for future research

There is no time like the present

2. Indicative, subjunctive, progressive and participle present

2.1 The indicative present

2.2 Present progressive

2.3 Subjunctive present

2.4 Present participle and infinitive

2.5 Summary of morphological forms

3. Learnability issues

4. Literature review

5. Methodology

5.1 Case study

5.2 Data

6. Findings

6.1 Classroom data: Essays (Fall 2013)

6.2 Empirical data: Cloze tests (Fall 2012

Fall 2013)

6.3 Empirical data: Sentence completion task (Fall 2013

Spring 2014)

6.4 Empirical data: Preference/GJT (Spring 2014)

6.5 Empirical data: Free production task (Spring 2014)

7. Discussion

8. Conclusion and directions for future research

Examining the influence of transfer and prototypes on the acquisition of the present progressive in L2 Spanish*

2. Crosslinguistic comparison on English and Spanish

2.1 Theoretical analysis of the crosslinguistic differences

3. Previous research

4. Method

4.2 Task

4.3 Procedure

4.4 Predictions and analysis

5.1 Continuous/ongoing and habitual

5.1.1 Native speakers

5.1.2 L2 learners

5.2 Habitual

5.2.1 Native speakers

5.2.3 L2 learners

5.3 Futurate

5.3.1 Native speakers

5.3.2 L2 learners

6. Discussion

7. Conclusion and future directions

Formation and Function of the simple present in conversational L2 Russian

2. L2 Acquisition of present tense

3. Functions of the simple present tense in English and Russian

3.1 Present state

3.2 Habitual actions

3.3 Present action

3.4 Past reference

3.5 Future reference

4. Formation of the simple present tense in English and Russian.

5. Research Study

5.1 Participants

5.2 Procedure

5.3 Data analysis and coding

6. Results and discussion

7. Conclusions and directions for future research

L2 acquisition of English aspect by L1 Arabic speakers

2. Progressive aspect in Arabic and English

3. Progressive aspect in L2 acquisition

4. Research questions

5.2 Assessment of proficiency levels

5.3 Aspectual Interpretation Task

6. Results

6.1 Proficiency effect on L2 development of grammatical aspect

6.2 Lexical aspect effect on L2 development of grammatical aspect

8. Conclusion and suggestions for future research

The simple present and the expression of temporality in L1 English and L2 English oral narratives

2. The aspectual value of the English simple present

3. Present-based narratives: Temporal relations and the role of the simple present form

4. The simple present in L2 English

5.2. Task and data collection procedure

5.3 Analytical instruments

5.3.1 The narrative move

5.3.2 Other analytical instruments

6.1 Narrative move choice in L1 English and L2 English: An overview

6.2 Distribution of tense-aspect morphology in FWD, SIDE and BACK moves

6.2.1 Tense-aspect morphology in FWD moves

6.2.2 Tense-aspect morphology in SIDE moves in L1 English and L2 English ­narratives

6.3 The distribution of the simple present in FWD and SIDE moves: Aspect or Discourse?

8. Conclusions and directions for further research

Appendix

Conclusions and directions for future research

Subject Index

Name Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027268075

902726807X

OCLC:

1491311544