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THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

Ayumi Matsuo
Ayumi Matsuo
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT. Ping Li and Yasuhiro Shirai. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. Pp. v + 261. $106.00 cloth.

This 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. The book discusses numerous topics related to the acquisition of aspect: from tense to grammatical to lexical aspect, from nativist to functionalist approaches, from a connectionist model to Universal Grammar, and from first language (L1) to second language (L2). It also covers relevant previous research in the acquisition of tense and aspect in Chinese, English, and Japanese. Although the aim of the book is not an extensive survey of the research done on aspect in all possible languages, given the importance of the work done on aspect in Slavic languages, one might have expected to see more discussion of this area.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 469 - 470
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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