A story-writing based study on the acquisition of aspect in spanish by mandarin chinese learners

• Autores: Yuliang Sun, Lourdes Díaz Rodríguez , Mariona Taulé Delor
• Localización: Revista española de lingüística aplicada, ISSN 0213-2028, Vol. 33, no. 2, 2020, págs. 588-617
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.1075/resla.18031.sun
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  • In this paper, we analyze the acquisition of Spanish past tense aspect by Mandarin Chinese learners of Spanish by means of three semi-guided writing tests. Specifically, we analyze the choice of pretérito indefinido and pretérito imperfecto, taking into account lexical aspect, grounding information, and the combination of both as variables. Moreover, we analyze whether transfer from Mandarin Chinese, the students’ first language (L1), occurs in the acquisition process. Our results partly support the Lexical Aspect Hypothesis (Andersen, 1991; Andersen & Shirai, 1996) and the Discourse Hypothesis (Bardovi-Harlig, 1994). According to these hypotheses, verbal properties and grounding information play a role in the selection of pretérito indefinido or pretérito imperfecto. Finally, our data support the existence of L1 transfer at the semantic level only.

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