Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition Form, Meaning, and Use

by Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Young, Richard F.

• ISBN13: 9780631221494
• ISBN10: 0631221492
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book explores the association of form and meaning in the acquisition of tense and aspect by adult learners of nine target languages. The book provides a survey and synthesis of studies from five perspectives: meaning-oriented approaches, acquisitional sequences, the aspect hypothesis, the discourse hypothesis, and the effect of instruction

Author Biography

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig is Professor and Chair of Second Language Studies at Indiana University. Her primary research interests are second-language temporality and tense-mood-aspect systems and interlanguage pragmatics. She has served as President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (2008) and former editor of Language Learning (2002-2005). Major publications include Themes in SLA Research (John Benjamins, 2006) and Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk (Erlbaum, 2005).

Table of Contents

The Study of Time Talk in Second Language Acquisition	1	(20)
Early Studies of Verbal Morphology	4	(6)
The Morpheme Order Studies	4	(2)
Phonetic Constraints	6	(4)
Investigating the Expression of Temporality	10	(4)
Methods of Research and Analysis	14	(2)
Overview of the Book	16	(5)
Meaning-Oriented Studies of Temporality	21	(72)
Expressing Temporality	22	(3)
Pragmatic Means for Expressing Temporality	25	(11)
Lexical Means for Expressing Temporality	36	(9)
Comprehension of Verbal Morphology	43	(1)
Limitations of Lexical Expression	44	(1)
Morphological Means for Expressing Temporality	45	(3)
Multiple Means for Expressing Temporality: Two Examples	48	(40)
Adverbials and the Acquisition of Simple Past Morphology	49	(14)
Adverbials and Morphology in Reverse-Order Reports	63	(25)
Chapter Summary	88	(5)
The Emergence of Verbal Morphology	93	(98)
Tense-Aspect Morphology in European Languages	96	(15)
Tense-Aspect Morphology Related to Past in English	104	(7)
The Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology	111	(3)
Longitudinal Studies of the Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology	114	(6)
Cross-Sectional Studies of the Acquistion of Tense-Aspect Morphology	120	(6)
A Study of the Emergence of Tense-Aspect Morphology Related to Past in English	126	(58)
Method	127	(11)
Analysis and Results	138	(46)
Comparing Meaning-Oriented and Form-Oriented Approaches	184	(2)
Chapter Summary	186	(5)
The Aspect Hypothesis	191	(86)
The Aspect Hypothesis	192	(35)
In Primary Language Acquisition	193	(2)
In Second Language Acquisition	195	(10)
Grammatical and Lexical Aspect	205	(22)
Investigations of the Aspect Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition	227	(45)
The Spread of Perfective Past	228	(6)
The Spread of Imperfective Past	234	(3)
The Spread of Progressive	237	(1)
Overgeneralization of Progressive in States	238	(1)
Sample Study: The Distribution of Verbal Morphology in Learner Narratives	239	(12)
Assessing the Influence of Lexical Aspect	251	(14)
Challenges to the Aspect Hypothesis	265	(7)
Chapter Summary	272	(5)
The Role of Discourse	277	(62)
The Interlanguage Discourse Hypothesis	277	(2)
Narrative Analysis	279	(38)
Studies of L2 Temporality and Narrative Structure	285	(7)
A Cross-Sectional Study of Tense-Aspect in L2 Narratives	292	(7)
Comparing Theoretical Frameworks	299	(5)
Empirical Evidence in Support of the Discourse and Aspect Hypotheses	304	(8)
Integrating the Analysis	312	(5)
Other Discourse Contexts	317	(18)
Realis and Irrealis: The Imaginary in Narrative	321	(6)
Personal and Impersonal Narratives: The Case of ``Personalized'' Narratives	327	(5)
Conversational and Elicited Narratives	332	(3)
Chapter Summary	335	(4)
The Influence of Instruction	339	(70)
Experimental Studies of the Effect of Instruction	341	(11)
An Observational Study of the Effect of Instruction	352	(43)
Method	353	(20)
Results	373	(19)
The Effect of Instruction	392	(3)
A Comparison of Instructed and Uninstructed Learners	395	(9)
Chapter Summary	404	(5)
Past, Present, and Future	409	(30)
Meaning-Oriented Studies	414	(4)
Acquisitional Sequences	418	(5)
Aspect Studies	423	(7)
Discourse Studies	430	(2)
The Influence of Instruction	432	(3)
Concluding Remarks	435	(4)
References	439	(24)
Index	463