
Beyond the Aspect Hypothesis
Tense-Aspect Development in Advanced L2 French
Emmannuelle Labeau(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 15. December 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-3-03910-281-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Aspect Hypothesis (AH) claims that the association of any verb category (lexical aspect) with any grammatical aspect (perfective or imperfective) constitutes the endpoint of acquisition.
The present book evaluates the explanatory power of the Aspect Hypothesis for the acquisition of French past tenses, which constitutes a serious stumbling block for foreign learners, even at the highest levels of proficiency. The present research applies the Aspect Hypothesis to the production of 61 Anglophone 'advanced learners' in a tutored environment. In so doing, it tests concurrent explanations, including the influence of the input, the influence of chunking, and the hypothesis of cyclic development. It discusses the cotextual and contextual factors that still provoke «non-native glitches» at the final stage of the Aspect Hypothesis.
The book shows that the AH fails to account for the complex phenomenon of past tense development, as it adopts a local and linear approach.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
fig. and tables
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-03910-281-5 (9783039102815)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The Author: Emmanuelle Labeau studied French Literature and Linguistics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles where she was awarded teacher qualifications for L1 and L2 French. She has been teaching at Aston University since 1995 as an assistant, teaching fellow and finally lecturer. She completed her Ph.D. in 2002. Her research interests are tense and aspect in French, both in acquisition and in language description.
Content
French Language - Theoretical description of French past tenses - Grammatical Aspect - Lexical Aspect - French as a foreign Language - Corpus Analysis.