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October 20th, 2020

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  October 20th, 2020

Japanese and Thai L2 Acquisitionof English Tense and Aspect AgreementNeal Snape1,2•Makiko Hirakawa2 •John Matthews21Gunma Prefectural Women’s University, 2Chuo UniversityGALA 2019, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, 13th Septembernealsnape@gpwu.ac.jp• hirakawa@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp • matthews@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp Tense and Aspect in EnglishBinnik (1991)Past simpleLast year, Jill wanted to get married … Present perfectFor months now, Jill has wanted to get married …Past simple tense form locates the reference time in the past (the event time), whereas the present perfect form locates the reference time in the present (the speech time), thereby having a current relevancy. Order of Administering Tasks Table 3. Past simple mean RTs in milliseconds (SD)1. Self-Paced Reading Task2. Acceptability Judgement Task3. Grammaticality Judgement TaskAcceptability Judgement (Off-line) Task (AJT)Past Simplematch: Last year, Jill wanted to get married….mismatch: *For months now, Jill wanted to get marrie