Date of Degree
2010
Document Type
thesis
Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Department
Speech Pathology and Audiology
First Advisor
Richard Hurtig
Abstract
Fourteen native Spanish-speaking adults participated in a study on tense and aspect in Spanish. Subjects viewed videos that depicted completed events or videos that ended with an ongoing event and chose a sentence in the past tense that best described the event. One condition included adverbial cues and the other condition did not. Subjects also read paragraphs describing bounded and unbounded events and chose a past tense verb that best fit the context. It was found that subjects consistently chose preterit responses for completed event videos in both the adverb and non-adverb condition, but responses varied more in the videos that ended with ongoing events. The majority of subjects selected preterit verbs for bounded events and imperfect verbs for unbounded events. Implications and further directions of research are discussed.
Pages
vi, 59
Bibliography
58-59
Copyright
Copyright 2010 Theresa Rachel Prisco
Recommended Citation
Prisco, Theresa Rachel. "Aspectual tenses in native Spanish-speaking adults." thesis, University of Iowa, 2010.
http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/578.