ミューラー チャールズ   Mueller Charles
  ミューラー チャールズ
   所属   藤女子大学  文学部 英語文化学科
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2018
形態種別 研究論文(学術雑誌)
査読 査読あり
標題 Initial acquisition of tense-aspect morphology in an artificial language
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 Second Language Research
掲載区分国外
巻・号・頁 34(4),pp.517-538
著者・共著者 ミューラー,チャールズ マルク
概要 Various explanations have been put forth for the asymmetrical acquisition of tense and aspect morphology across categories of lexical aspect. This experiment tested the adequacy of a subset of such accounts by examining English native speakers’ (n = 40) use of progressive and past tense morphology within activity and accomplishment verb frames during their early acquisition of a miniature artificial language. Participants completed a lesson in which types and tokens of lexical aspect and past and present morphology were balanced. Although significant effects at p < .05 were found for lexical aspect and morphological marking, the interaction between these factors, expected by the aspect hypothesis, was non-significant. The experiment suggests that the effects of lexical aspect may be absent during the earliest phases of second language acquisition or may be due to factors methodologically excluded in this study such as distributional biases in second language input.