The Acquisition of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect

✍ Scribed by Ping Li; Yasuhiro Shirai

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 276
Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]; 16
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"The book covers everything related to aspect in the field of language acquisition; I was amazed by how the authors managed to do this in such a clear manner in only 261 pages."

(Ayumi Matsuo, Studies in Second Language Acquisition 26, 3-2004)

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Aspect: Problem of lexicon and morphology
Chapter 3 Theories of language acquisition and the acquisition of aspect
Chapter 4 Acquisition of aspect in English
Chapter 5 Acquisition of aspect in Chinese
Chapter 6 Acquisition of aspect in Japanese
Chapter 7 A connectionist model of the acquisition of aspect
Chapter 8 Acquisition of aspect: Conclusions and future directions
Postscript
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index

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