Lexical and grammatical aspect in language acquisition

This paper investigates the relation between lexical and grammatical aspect in child Romanian. It tests the predictions of the Aspect First Hypothesis against the data of one Romanian speaking child. It finds that the Aspect First Hypothesis is not confirmed by child Romanian in its strong interpret...

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Main Author: Ioana Stoicescu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2009-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/lexical_and_grammatical_aspect_in_language_acquisition
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description This paper investigates the relation between lexical and grammatical aspect in child Romanian. It tests the predictions of the Aspect First Hypothesis against the data of one Romanian speaking child. It finds that the Aspect First Hypothesis is not confirmed by child Romanian in its strong interpretation. However, the data supports the prototype reinterpretation of the Aspect First Hypothesis.
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spelling doaj.art-19a450fe1d824c12bd344e7628cfbd352022-12-21T23:13:31ZengEditura Universitatii din BucurestiBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics2069-92392009-01-01XI1267275Lexical and grammatical aspect in language acquisitionIoana StoicescuThis paper investigates the relation between lexical and grammatical aspect in child Romanian. It tests the predictions of the Aspect First Hypothesis against the data of one Romanian speaking child. It finds that the Aspect First Hypothesis is not confirmed by child Romanian in its strong interpretation. However, the data supports the prototype reinterpretation of the Aspect First Hypothesis.http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/lexical_and_grammatical_aspect_in_language_acquisitionaspecttenseAspect First Hypothesischild Romanian
spellingShingle Ioana Stoicescu
Lexical and grammatical aspect in language acquisition
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
aspect
tense
Aspect First Hypothesis
child Romanian
title Lexical and grammatical aspect in language acquisition
title_full Lexical and grammatical aspect in language acquisition
title_fullStr Lexical and grammatical aspect in language acquisition
title_full_unstemmed Lexical and grammatical aspect in language acquisition
title_short Lexical and grammatical aspect in language acquisition
title_sort lexical and grammatical aspect in language acquisition
topic aspect
tense
Aspect First Hypothesis
child Romanian
url http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/lexical_and_grammatical_aspect_in_language_acquisition
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