Title : ( The Interaction of Lexical and Grammatical Aspects in English as a Foreign Language for Iranian Farsi Speaking Learners )
Authors: Reza Pishghadam , - - ,
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This study aims to investigate the claims of Aspect Hypothesis which holds that in the past tense, perfective verbs precede imperfective verbs, having a different pattern of acquisition based on their lexical aspect, i.e., learners initiate using perfective past marks from the prototypical verbs which contain the achievement and accomplishment lexical aspects, while they start using imperfective past marks from the verbs whose lexical aspects are stative and activity. In this study, ten Iranian (from Mashhad) Farsi speaking learners of English were given a film to watch and retell the story in impersonal narrative in past tense. ...
Keywords
, Aspect Hypothesis, grammatical aspect, lexical aspect, perfective past tense, imperfective past tense.
@article{paperid:1025347,
author = {Pishghadam, Reza and -, -},
title = {The Interaction of Lexical and Grammatical Aspects in English as a Foreign Language for Iranian Farsi Speaking Learners},
journal = {Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences},
year = {2012},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
month = {January},
issn = {2039-9340},
pages = {149--156},
numpages = {7},
keywords = {Aspect Hypothesis; grammatical aspect; lexical aspect; perfective past tense; imperfective past tense.},
}
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%A -, -
%J Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
%@ 2039-9340
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