Grammatical Aspect in Children

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Title:	Grammatical Aspect in Children
Author:	Tabaczynski, Tracy
Description:	Verb aspect is a subtle feature of language usage and comprehension that denotes a certain time frame within which an event occurs. Sensitivity to verb aspect may play a role in adult’s linguistic understanding by marking particular features of an event as salient. This study investigates whether verb aspect modulates both adults’ and children’s access to one particular event feature, the location at which the event occurs. English distinguishes between two aspects, the imperfective and the perfective. The imperfective aspect conveys that an event is ongoing, while perfective aspect conveys that an event is completed. Research with adults using semantic priming methods has shown that only verbs marked by imperfective aspect facilitate naming latencies for locations at which the events referred to by the verb typically occur. Verbs marked by perfective aspect do not result in such facilitation. This study extends previous research by replicating priming in adults for imperfective verb-location pairs using a modified, partly novel, stimuli set. By contrast, children aged 11-12 showed priming for locations following both imperfective and perfective verbs when tested with the same modified stimuli set.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1194026797 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/15826
Date:	2007

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