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L2 acquisition of temporality: Findings from a corpus based study of the grammatical encoding of past time
2015
Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies
The article presents a study that investigates the role of verb semantics (the Aspect Hypothesis) and L1 influence in texts from a learner corpus (Norsk andrespråkskorpus, ASK) that were written by 73 Vietnamese and 88 Somali learners of Norwegian. The main structures addressed are the preterite and the present perfect. There are two key findings. First, the Aspect hypothesis is not corroborated because lexical-aspectual influence is not detected. Second, the learner's L1 is found to affect the
doi:10.15845/bells.v6i0.809
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