Young Children's Understanding of Ongoing vs. Completion in Present and Perfective Participles

Abstract

"There has been a vast amount of cross-linguistic research on the morphology of the grammatical aspect especially with respect to the perfective-imperfective distinction, starting with Brown (1973) and de Villiers and de Villiers (1973). Children's comprehension of perfective-imperfective distinction is discussed in Weist, Sysocka & Lyytinen (1991), van Hout (in press), Vinnitskaya & Wexler (2001), Wagner (2002) and others. However, not much research has been carried out on the acquisition of present and perfective participles"