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    The development of past tense verbal morphology in classroom L2 Spanish. The study analyzed the development of past tense morphology in Spanish among 20 English-speaking college students learning Spanish as a second language. Researchers found that as students' Spanish proficiency increased over two months, the lexical aspect or meaning of the verb had a greater influence on their selection of Spanish past tense verb endings. Lower-level learners were influenced more by tense contrasts than lexical aspect when using past tense verbs.

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    The development of past tense verbal morphology in classroom L2 Spanish. The study analyzed the development of past tense morphology in Spanish among 20 English-speaking college students learning Spanish as a second language. Researchers found that as students' Spanish proficiency increased over two months, the lexical aspect or meaning of the verb had a greater influence on their selection of Spanish past tense verb endings. Lower-level learners were influenced more by tense contrasts than lexical aspect when using past tense verbs.

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    The development of past tense verbal morphology in classroom L2 Spanish. The study analyzed the development of past tense morphology in Spanish among 20 English-speaking college students learning Spanish as a second language. Researchers found that as students' Spanish proficiency increased over two months, the lexical aspect or meaning of the verb had a greater influence on their selection of Spanish past tense verb endings. Lower-level learners were influenced more by tense contrasts than lexical aspect when using past tense verbs.

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    The development of past tense verbal morphology in classroom L2 Spanish

    . MR Salaberry +

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    . Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Penn State University, 352N Burrowes, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: salaberry@psu.edu

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    Previous research (e.g. Andersen 1986, 1991; BardoviHarlig and Bergstrm 1996; Robison 1990, 1995) has shown that the development of aspectual distinctions (inflectional morphology) among adult second language learners is associated with lexical aspect. The present study analyzed the development of Past tense verbal morphology in L2 Spanish among 20 collegelevel L1 English students. Four native speakers acted as a control group. The study was based on the analysis of oral movie narratives collected at two different times two months apart. The results of the study show that the lexical aspectual semantics of the verb phrase have an increasing influence on the selection of verbal endings throughout development of the L2. In contrast, for the lowest-level learners represented in this study the effect of lexical aspect is minimal compared to the effect of tense contrasts.

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