Past tense in SLA

[Jean Pierre Chevrot]

Dear all,
Thank you for your help and answers to our request for references concerning
the acquisition of English past tenses in L2. This will help us
to organize our work properly.You will find below a list of the references
that we have received.
Jean-Pierre Chevrot and Carolyne Petit.

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Andersen, R. & Shirai, Y. 1996. "The primacy of aspect in first and second
language acquisition: The pidgin-creole connection". In Handbook of Second
Language Acquisition, W. Ritchie & T. Bhatia, 527-570. London, Academic
Press.

Bailey, N. (1987). The importance of meaning over form in L2 system
building: An unresolved issue. Ph. D. Thesis. Graduate Center, City
University of New York.

Bardovi-Harlig, K. (1999)." From morpheme studies to temporal semantics:
Tense-aspect research in SLA: The state of the art". Studies in
Second-Language Acquisition, 21.

Bardovi-Harlig, K. (2000). Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition:
Form, Meaning, and Use. Oxford: Blackwell (one chapter on the influence of
instruction).

Beck, M. L. (1997). Regular verbs, past tense and frequency: tracking down a
potential source of NS/NNS competence differences. Second Language Research,
13(2), 93-115 (influence of classroom learning on the frequency effects on
irregular verbs)

Birdsong, D. & Flege, J. E. (2001) Regular-irregular dissociations in the
acquisition of English as a second language. In BUCLD 25: Proceedings of the
25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language development (pp.
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Borden, D. S. (1994). Non-native speakers of English and denominal
regularization. Ph. D Thesis. University of Texas, Denton.

Brovetto, C., & Ullman, M. T. (2001). First vs. second language: A
differential reliance on grammatical computations and lexical memory,
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence
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Center.

Deitrich, R., Klein, W., & Noyau, C. (1995). The acquisition of
temporality in a second language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Ellis, R. (1987). Interlanguage variability in narrative discourse: Style
shifting in the use of the past tense. Studies in Second Language
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H. Riionheimo: Morphological attrition and interference in language contact:
Sketching a framework. In: J. Niemi, T. Odlin and J. Heikkinen (1998, eds.),
Language Contact, Variation, and Change. Studies in Languages 32, University
of Joensuu (Pp. 246-268.) (see my webpage for further information on the
series).

Housen, A. (1998) "Le processus de grammaticalisation dans le domaine de la
temporalité et le développement de l'interlangue", Travaux de Linguistique,
36, pp. 209-222.

Housen, A. (2000) "Verb semantics and the acquisition of Tense-Aspect
Morphology in English", Studia Linguistica, 54, 2, 249-259.

Housen, A. (2002). "A corpus-based study of the L2-acquisition of the
English verb system", in Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language
Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning, S. Granger, J. Hung & S.
Petch-Tyson (eds). London: John Benjamins.

Randi-Rao, S. (2001). Inflecting denominal verbs: The role of semantics.
Paper presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual BUCLD, Boston, November 3.

Salaberry, R. & Shirai, Y. (in press). Tense-aspect morphology in L2
acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Salaberry, R. (2000). "The acquisition of English Past tense in an
instructional setting: Irregular and frequent morphology". System, 28(1),
35-152.

Schlyter, Suzanne, 1990. 'The acquisition of tense and aspect'. In: Meisel,
ed., 1990, pp. 87-122. (Meisel, Jürgen, ed., 1990. Two First Languages -
Early Grammatical Development in Bilingual Children, Dordrecht: Foris
publications.) (aspect/tense acquisition in Swedish-French bilingual
children)

Schlyter, Suzanne, 1995. Formes verbales du passé dans des interactions en
langue forte et en langue faible. AILE (Acquisition et Interaction en Langue
Etrangère) 6: 129-152 ()

Tatiana Chernigvskaya & Kira Gor 2000: The complexity of paradigm and input
frequency in native and second language verbal processing: Evidence from
Russian. Language and Language Behavior 3-2, 2000, pp 20-37.

Ullman, M. T. (2001). The neural basis of lexicon and grammar in first and
second language: The declarative/procedural model. Bilingualism: Language
and Cognition, 4(1), 105-122.

Wolfram, W. (1985). Variability in tense marking: A case for the obvious
Language Learning, 35(2), 229-253.



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Jean-Pierre Chevrot
UFR SCL, Université Stendhal, BP 25, 38040, Grenoble cedex, France
tel : (0)4 76 41 90 46
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