学習者コーパスを用いたAspect hypothesisの検証

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The present study aims to test what has been known in SLA as the aspect hypothesis, which claims that the acquisition of verb inflections in an early interlanguage development are influenced by lexical aspect that each verb possesses. In order to test this claim, I used 3,498 samples of past tense verbs from learner corpora consisting of free composition data by the second and the third year junior high school students in Japan. Although I employed the Vendler's classification of four lexical aspects, the results indicated that the acquisition of the past tense marker was only affected by two aspectual categories, 'stative' and 'dynamic'. Since this binary division of the lexical aspect has not appeared in previous studies, I argued that there are four potential reasons for the outcomes: 1) the nature of learner corpus data, 2) the effect of input, 3) the possible L1 influence, and 4) the effect of tasks.
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