Abstract:The aim of the study was to investigate how Serbian native speaking preschool
children comprehend perfective and imperfective aspect in comparison to
adults. After watching animated movies with complete, incomplete and
unstarted actions, the participants were asked questions with a perfective
or imperfective verb form and responded by pointing to the event(s) that
corresponded to each question. The results converged to a clear
developmental trend in understanding of aspectual forms. The data … Show more
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