L1 acquisition of past progressive!

[Ping Li]

Dear Shoba,

In a recent monograph, Yas Shirai and I examined the phenomena that you
mentioned in both L1 and L2, comparing data across English, Chinese, and
Japanese, with theoretical discussions on developmental, crosslinguistic,
and connectionist perspectives on the acquisition of tense/aspect. The book
should come out soon or anytime now, and you can print out and mail the
order form from the website  http://www.richmond.edu/~pli/book.html or
contact kleinhenz at degruyter.de via email.

Li, P. & Shirai, Y. (2000). The acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect.
	Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Its Table of Contents is enclosed here for your information:

   Preface
Chapter 1  Introduction
Chapter 2  Aspect: Problem of lexicon and morphology
Chapter 3  Theories of language acquisition and the acquisition of aspect

Chapter 4  Acquisition of aspect in English
Chapter 5  Acquisition of aspect in Chinese
Chapter 6  Acquisition of aspect in Japanese
Chapter 7  A connectionist model of the acquisition of aspect
Chapter 8  Acquisition of aspect: Conclusions and future directions

   Postscript
   Notes

   References
   Author Index
   Subject Index

Please let me know if this book is useful to your work.

Best,

Ping Li

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>Dear Info-CHILDES,
>
>Wolfram (1985) and Bailey (1987) have noted an interesting pattern
>in adult L2 acquisition of the English Past Progressive Tense: the
>past progressive makes an early appearance in the learners'
>interlanguage, but after an initial steady increase, a decline is
>observed.
>
>Does anyone know whether a similar learning paradigm is observed for
>L1 acquisition? I would appreciate any references on the L1 acquisition
>of the English present and past progressive tenses.
>
>Thank you in advance!
>
>Best,
>Shoba
>
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>Shoba Bandi Rao
>Doctoral student/Applied Linguistics
>New York University
>Tel. Work (212) 998-5670
>http://pages.nyu.edu/~sqb4972/
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