The Development of Past Tense Morphology in L2 Spanish

Perspectives in the Study of Spanish Language Variation: Papers in Honor of Carmen Silva-Corvalán

“…Nevertheless, the majority of the occurrences of the progressive form were produced in contexts with future reference (such as example 11 above) and very few in stative contexts (example 12). This evidence is consistent with the claim that the progressive is not overgeneralized to statives (Li and Shirai 2000;Salaberry 2000), although it is important to note that some students did so.…”

Chapter 10. Data Analysis: Quantitative approaches

“…Most studies of the Aspect Hypothesis have used Vendler's (1967) categories and many, although certainly by no means all, have focused on the relationship between lexical aspect and past tense marking (e.g., Anderson 1991; Bardovi-Harlig 1994, 1998, 2000Bardovi-Harlig and Reynolds 1995;Bayley 1999;Collins 2002;Salaberry 2000). Table 2 summarizes the features of Vendler's categories, which are also illustrated in examples (2) to (7), taken from the Spanish data used in Bayley (1999).…”

Chapter 5. Research design: A two-way predicational system is better than a four-way approach

“…However, there may be other factors that can interfere with this proposed complementarity of aspectual meanings. First of all, narrating a story in Spanish typically calls for the perfective (for a review of studies defending a discursive approach to grammatical aspect, see Salaberry 2000), and therefore, the perfective is the most prominent past tense marker. Secondly, the durative value is the unmarked predication in language production, and as unmarked, it appears more often.…”

“…Although these characterizations do not follow the same theoretical framework, reviewing them jointly can be important in building an adequate model of tense-aspect acquisition. The theoretical perspectives to be summarized are the following: Lexical Aspect Hypothesis (Andersen 1991), the Default Past Tense Hypothesis (Salaberry 2000), and the Predication-e¤ect Hypothesis (see Section 2).…”