The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology
Edited by M. Rafael Salaberry and Yasuhiro Shirai
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 27] 2002. x, 489 pp.
Yasuhiro Shirai
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yasuhiro Shirai plays a role.
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Subjects Language disorders & speech pathology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 Verb learning and the acquisition of aspect: L1 transfer of verb semantics Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:3, pp. 323–367 | Article
Although SLA research has extensively investigated the role of lexical aspect in L2 acquisition of tense-aspect marking, the role of L1 is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates the effect of cross-linguistic variation in lexical aspect and explores how the learning of lexical aspect… read more
2020 Arabic learners’ acquisition of English past tense morphology: Lexical aspect and phonological saliency Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research, Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner (eds.), pp. 111–134 | Chapter
The current study investigates the roles of lexical aspect and phonological saliency in second language acquisition of English past tense morphology. It also explores whether the effects of these factors are affected by data elicitation tasks and learners’ L2 proficiency. We created a learner… read more
2018 Arabic learners’ acquisition of English past tense morphology: Lexical aspect and phonological saliency Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research, Fuchs, Robert and Valentin Werner (eds.), pp. 253–276 | Article
The current study investigates the roles of lexical aspect and phonological saliency in second language acquisition of English past tense morphology. It also explores whether the effects of these factors are affected by data elicitation tasks and learners’ L2 proficiency. We created a learner… read more
2015 Chapter 8. The L2 acquisition of the present in the Japanese tense-aspect system: Evidence for a tripartite system? The Acquisition of the Present, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 215–252 | Article
Although the research on the acquisition of tense-aspect markers has been extensively pursued since the 1970s, the focus of these studies has mostly been on particular grammatical markers (such as past tense markers, perfective aspect markers, progressive aspect markers), and they have tended to… read more
2015 Chapter 1. The development of third person singular present form -s: Verb semantics or input frequency? The Acquisition of the Present, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 1–20 | Article
Addressing two hypotheses, the Aspect Hypothesis (Andersen & Shirai 1994; Shirai & Andersen 1995) and the Verb-Island Hypothesis (Tomasello 1992), this study analyzed whether the acquisition of third person singular present -s (3S) follows the same path as other tense-aspect markers, such as -ing,… read more
2014 The semantic basis of grammatical development: Its implications for modularity, innateness, and the theory of grammar Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language, Kabata, Kaori and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 153–170 | Article
This chapter reviews semantic bias observed in the acquisition of grammatical categories, and examines its theoretical implications. It first reviews the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology, in particular of English, and proposes a model of grammatical development called the “input-based… read more
2012 9. L2 acquisition of tense-aspect morphology: Lexical aspect, morphological regularity, and transfer Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 181–204 | Article
Comparing universal against language-specific factors, this chapter examines the roles of lexical aspect, morphological regularity, and transfer in the developmental emergence of past and progressive morphology among four adult learners of English from Italian and Punjabi L1 backgrounds. The… read more
2009 Can L2 learners productively use Japanese tense-aspect markers? A usage-based approach Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 423 ff. | Article
2002 1. L2 acquisition of tense-aspect morphology The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology, Salaberry, M. Rafael and Yasuhiro Shirai (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Chapter
2002 15. The prototype hypothesis of tense-aspect acquisition in second language The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology, Salaberry, M. Rafael and Yasuhiro Shirai (eds.), pp. 455 ff. | Chapter
1998 Where the Progressive and the Resultative Meet: Imperfective Aspect in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English Studies in Language 22:3, pp. 661–692 | Article
This paper surveys the progressive and resultative morphology of Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English, and argues that although the distinction between perfective and imperfective is the most fundamental of aspectual distinctions, analysis of these languages reveals that this distinction can… read more