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Journal of Child Language
|April 1, 2004
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Children

Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Language Acquisition

Background:

  • The tense-aspect system is crucial for understanding language development.
  • Cross-linguistic differences in aspect marking influence acquisition patterns.
  • The interplay between syntax and semantics is key in language learning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the interaction between syntactic and semantic aspects of tense-aspect during child language acquisition.
  • To compare the acquisition of tense-aspect in English and Polish, focusing on typological differences.
  • To explore the role of deictic relations in the development of a multi-dimensional tense-aspect system.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of CHILDES archives for six English-speaking and six Polish-speaking children.

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  • Identification of predicates and tracking the emergence of their tense-aspect morphology.
  • Comparison of acquisition patterns for specific verbs and predicate types (telic vs. atelic).

    • Main Results:

    • Significant differences observed in tense-aspect acquisition between English and Polish learners.
    • English progressive aspect and Polish perfective aspect are acquired as marked forms.
    • Typological distinctions in aspect marking impact the developmental trajectory.

    Conclusions:

    • Children develop a complex, multi-dimensional tense-aspect system.
    • Deictic relations are fundamental dimensions in this acquisition process.
    • A functional theoretical framework with a strong syntactic-semantic interface effectively explains these findings.