Twenty years ago, a state-of-the-art review in SSLA marked the coming of age of the study of
temporality in second language acquisition. This was followed by three monographs on …

One of the most intriguing questions in the investigation of second-language acquisition
concerns the role of learners' first language (L1). Comparing learners of different …

Building up on studies that have revealed L2 transfer of imperfective meaning from one
Romance language into another [Salaberry, MR (2005). Evidence for transfer of knowledge …

The aim of this work is to investigate the use of Spanish Preterit and Imperfect by English
speaking learners of L2 Spanish following the Lexical Aspect Hypothesis (;;;,;). The article …

In part due to the significant influence of Andersen's Lexical Aspect Hypothesis, research on
the L2 acquisition of tense and aspect has focused primarily on the construct of aspect …

Research on tense-aspect phenomena has shown that the type of experimental task can
affect the performance of L2 learners. This pilot study on the understudied language …

This study investigates knowledge of Spanish Preterit and Imperfect in Spanish heritage
speakers in Germany in “canonical” and “non-canonical” contexts. Based on a small-scale …

Este trabajo investiga la adquisición del sistema temporal-aspectual en español como
segunda lengua/lengua extranjera desde una perspectiva múltiple. A través de un estudio …

ABSTRACT The Imperfect/Preterite aspectual contrast is one of the most studied topics in
Spanish as a second language research. However, there are few works focused on …

This article presents original evidence for an L1-effect in SLA by comparing empirical
studies on German and Dutch learners of L2 Spanish (written production). In Spanish …