Kang, Hyeon-seok. “Aspectual Influence on Tense Marking in an EFL Context.” Studies on English Language and Literature. 33.3(2007): 151-173. With the goal of examining the validity of the aspect hypothesis of Andersen & Shirai (1996) and Shirai (2007), this article investigates aspectual effects of verbs on past marking on the basis of 2077 verb tokens from 18 Korean English learners’ recorded speech produced in an EFL context. Two multivariate statistical analyses are conducted in this study for data analysis. Results of the analyses provide yet another piece of support to the aspect hypothesis. In both statistical tests, lexical aspect was chosen as s significant constraint on past marking, and telic verbs showed clearly higher probabilities of marking than atelics. This paper concludes that the effect of lexical aspect on past marking is robust, not heavily affected by language learning contexts or types of data. (Dankook University)
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Abstract I. Introduction II. Background 2.1 The Aspect Hypothesis 2.2 Previous Research III. Research Questions IV. Research Data V. Preliminary Data Analysis VI. Mulivariate Statistical analyses 6.1 SPSS analysis 6.2 Varbrul analysis VII. Overall Discussion and Implications VIII. Conclusion Works Cited Appendix