On the Acquisition of Clitic Se and Aspect in Spanish

Abstract

The literature on acquisition of aspect has focussed on the perfectivityimperfectivity distinction. In this paper we deal with this topic regarding the acquisition of aspectual clitic se which is crucially related to perfectivity structures. The data analysed are available on the Childes database. We show that very young children make omission errors of clitic se. We support the view that the acquisition of telicity is difficult in languages where telicity is marked by the combinatio