Abstract The present study investigates whether the tense-aspect development of Cantonese-English bilingual children conforms to the Aspect Hypothesis (Andersen and Shirai 1994. Discourse motivations for some cognitive acquisition principles. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 16(2). 133–156.), which has been shown to predict the development of monolingual children of many different languages well, and whether the two languages influence each other during development. Analysis of longitudinal production data from three Cantonese-English bilinguals (Yip and Matthews 2000. Syntactic transfer in a Cantonese-English bilingual child. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 3(3). 193–208.) shows that the development of bilingual children resemble that of monolingual children and generally follow the Aspect Hypothesis, but to a lesser degree. Interactions were also observed in that the acquisition of the Cantonese progressive marker gan was accelerated by the -ing in the bilingual children, and transfer from Cantonese to English allowed them to use the English past tense marking with verbs of different lexical aspect early in their development, deviating from the prediction of the Aspect Hypothesis.

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粤英双语儿童体态标记的发展

摘要 本研究调查粤英双语儿童的时态发展是否符合方面假设（Andersen and Shirai 1994. Discoursemotivations for some认知获得原则。研究二语习得16（2）133-156。 )，这已被证明可以很好地预测多种不同语言的单语儿童的发展，以及两种语言在发展过程中是否相互影响。来自三个粤英双语者的纵向生产数据分析（Yip and Matthews 2000. Syntactic transfer in a Cantonese-English bilingual child. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 3(3). 193–208.) 表明双语儿童的发展类似于单语儿童通常遵循方面假设，但程度较低。