Twenty years ago, a state-of-the-art review in SSLA marked the coming of age of the study of
temporality in second language acquisition. This was followed by three monographs on …

This article surveys the development of second language acquisition research in the area of
tense and aspect. Research in the area has grown from the incidental investigation of tense …

This chapter addresses the question of what constitutes evidence for hypotheses concerning
the acquisition of tense and aspect by adult secondlanguage learners. The hypotheses …

This study investigated the relationship between L1 and the developmental sequences for
the acquisition of temporal morphology that are predicted by the aspect hypothesis. The use …

The goal of this chapter is to substantiate the relevance and importance of studying
tense/aspect systems in order to gain a better understanding of the acquisition of a second …

This review article surveys recent research on the first and second language acquisition of
temporal and aspectual properties of natural languages. Three recently published books are …

This chapter proposes an explanation for a universal tendency observed in the acquisition of
tense-aspect morphology, summarized in what is known as the Aspect Hypothesis (AH; …

Studies of first and second language acquisition have indicated that when verbal
morphemes first appear, they tend to mark aspectual distinctions in non-native-like ways …

Two cross‐sectional studies (N= 70; N= 91) used a replication design to investigate the
degree to which adult Francophone ESL learners' use of tense/aspect markers in past …

Two hypotheses regarding the distribution of emergent tense-aspect morphology in SLA
have been proposed: the aspect hypothesis, which claims the distribution of interlanguage …