Telicity in the Second Language (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders)

249 Pages·2001·1.4 MB·English

by  Roumyana Slabakova

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TelicityintheSecondLanguage
Language Acquisition & Language Disorders
SeriesEditors
HaraldClahsen
UniversityofEssex
LydiaWhite
McGillUniversity
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MelissaBowerman,MaxPlanckInstitutfürPsycholinguistik,Nijmegen
KatherineDemuth,BrownUniversity
NinaHyams,UniversityofCaliforniaatLosAngeles
WilliamO’Grady,UniversityofHawaii
JürgenMeisel,UniversitätHamburg
MabelRice,UniversityofKansas
LuigiRizzi,UniversityofSiena
BonnieSchwartz,UniversityofDurham
AntonellaSorace,UniversityofEdinburgh
KarinStromswold,RutgersUniversity
JürgenWeissenborn,UniversitätPotsdam
FrankWijnen,UtrechtUniversity
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TelicityintheSecondLanguage
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Telicity in the Second Language
Roumyana Slabakova
UniversityofIowa
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements(cid:3)xiii
Chapter1
Aspectandtheoriesofsecondlanguageacquisition(cid:3)1
1.1 Introduction(cid:3)1
1.2 Aspectualdistinctions(cid:3)3
1.2.1 Someterminology:Telicityandboundedness(cid:3)3
1.2.2 Whystudyaspect?(cid:3)5
1.3 Theoreticalframework(cid:3)6
1.3.1 Semanticuniversals(cid:3)7
1.3.2 Parameters(cid:3)8
1.4 TheoriesofaccesstoUG(cid:3)9
1.4.1 UGisnotactiveinadulthood(cid:3)10
1.4.2 Directaccess(cid:3)14
1.4.3 L1grammarastheinitialhypothesis(cid:3)16
Chapter2
Semanticandsyntactictreatmentsoftelicity(cid:3)21
2.1 Introduction(cid:3)21
2.2 Moreterminology(cid:3)21
2.2.1 Aspectualclasses(cid:3)21
2.2.2 Tests(cid:3)23
2.3 Aspectualsemantics(cid:3)25
2.3.1 Dowty’s(1979)aspectualcalculus(cid:3)25
2.3.2 Sub-eventstructure(cid:3)27
2.3.3 Aspectconstrual(cid:3)35
2.4 Aspectinsyntax(cid:3)41
2.4.1 Tenny(1987,1994)(cid:3)41
2.4.2 HaleandKeyser(1992,1993)(cid:3)46
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2.4.3 Travis(1992,1994)(cid:3)52
2.4.4 Borer(1994,1998)(cid:3)56
2.5 Conclusion(cid:3)62
Chapter3
EnglishandSlavictelicity:Asyntacticaccount(cid:3)63
3.1 Introduction(cid:3)63
3.2 Englishphrasestructuretemplates(cid:3)64
3.3 Theaspect-relatedconstructions(cid:3)71
3.3.1 Onaunifiedaccountofresultatives,particles,anddouble
objects(cid:3)72
3.3.2 Resultatives,particles,anddoubleobjectsareunifiedonthe
basisofaspect(cid:3)73
3.3.3 Doubleobjectmaynotbepartofthecluster(cid:3)78
3.4 TheencodingofSlavicVPaspect(cid:3)82
3.4.1 Thecompletearrayofaspectualmorphemes(cid:3)82
3.4.2 Preverbsandverbclass(cid:3)87
3.4.3 Thephrasestructurepositionofpreverbs:Evidencefrom
VP-internalscope(cid:3)88
3.5 Whatcanbeexplainedifpreverbsarehigherthanthederived
objectposition?(cid:3)92
3.5.1 PerfectiveandimperfectiveVPsinthescopeof
negation(cid:3)92
3.5.2 Verbalversusnominalmarkersoftemporalboundary(cid:3)94
3.5.3 Piñon’s(1993)ambiguityproblem(cid:3)96
3.6 Thetelicityparameterandtheaspect-relatedconstructionsin
EnglishandBulgarian:Bringingitallbacktogetheragain(cid:3)99
3.7 Conclusion(cid:3)101
Chapter4
Firstandsecondlanguageacquisitionofaspect(cid:3)103
4.1 Introduction(cid:3)103
4.2 Firstlanguageacquisitionresearchonaspect(cid:3)104
4.2.1 Theearlyprimacyofaspecthypothesis(cid:3)104
4.2.2 Againsttheprimacyofaspecthypothesis(cid:3)106
4.2.3 Thelateprimacyofaspecthypothesis(cid:3)108
4.2.4 Againstthelateprimacyofaspecthypothesis(cid:3)112
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4.3 Secondlanguageacquisitionofaspect(cid:3)114
4.4 Criticismoftheprimacyofaspecthypothesis(cid:3)125
4.4.1 Defectivetenseversusrelativizeddefectivetense(cid:3)125
4.4.2 Competenceversusperformanceissues(cid:3)126
4.4.3 Anewlookatthedata(cid:3)128
4.5 Thedistributionalbiashypothesis(cid:3)132
4.6 Viewpointaspectversussituationaspect(cid:3)135
4.7 Thetemplateapproachtolanguageacquisition(cid:3)137
4.8 Acquisitionoftheclusterofaspect-relatedconstructions(cid:3)140
4.9 Conclusion(cid:3)142
Chapter5
AnexperimentalstudyoftheL2acquisitionoftelicity(cid:3)143
5.1 Introduction(cid:3)143
5.2 Researchquestions(cid:3)143
5.3 Thetelicitymarkingparametersummarized(cid:3)146
5.4 Specifichypotheses(cid:3)147
5.5 Participants(cid:3)148
5.6 Assessmentofproficiencylevels(cid:3)150
5.7 Methodology(cid:3)152
5.7.1 TheAspecttask(cid:3)152
5.7.2 TheTranslationtask(cid:3)154
5.7.3 TheGrammaticalityJudgementtask(cid:3)155
5.7.4 TheStoriestask(cid:3)156
5.8 Results(cid:3)156
5.8.1 TheAspecttask(cid:3)157
5.8.2 TheTranslationtask(cid:3)160
5.8.3 TheGrammaticalityJudgementtask(cid:3)163
5.8.4 TheStoriestask(cid:3)170
5.9 Conclusion(cid:3)172
Chapter6
Discussion,implications,andconclusion(cid:3)173
6.1 Introduction(cid:3)173
6.2 Summaryoftheresults(cid:3)173