The Acquisition of Diminutives

A cross-linguistic perspective

Editors

Ineta Savickienė

| Vytautas Magnus University

Wolfgang U. Dressler

| University of Vienna

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ISBN 9789027253033 | EUR 120.00 | USD 180.00

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This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These languages differ in various aspects relevant for the acquisition of diminutives and the development of pragmatics in early child language. Diminutive formation often tends to be the first pattern of word formation to emerge. The main reason for this seems to lie in the pragmatic functions of endearment, empathy, and sympathy, which make diminutives particularly appropriate for child-centred communication. A main topic of this book is the relation of emergence and early development between diminutives and other categories of word formation and inflection. The greater degree of morphological productivity and transparency, as well as phonological saliency, favors the use of diminutives. In this case diminutives may facilitate the acquisition of inflection.

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 43] 2007. vi, 352 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.43

Table of Contents

Introduction Ineta Savickienė and Wolfgang U. Dressler	1–12
1. Form and meaning of diminutives in Lithuanian child language Ineta Savickienė	13–41
2. Diminutives in Russian at the early stages of acquisition Ekaterina Protassova and Maria D. Voeikova	43–72
3. The acquisition of diminutives in Croatian Marijan Palmovic	73–88
4. Diminutives in Greek child language Evangelia Thomadaki and Ursula Stephany	89–123
5. The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Italian morphology Sabrina Noccetti, Anna De Marco, Livia Tonelli and Wolfgang U. Dressler	125–153
6. The acquisition of diminutives in Spanish: a useful device Victoria Marrero, Carmen Aguirre and María José Albalá	155–181
7. A longitudinal study of the acquisition of diminutives in Dutch Agnita Souman and Steven Gillis	183–206
8. Diminutives and hypocoristics in Austrian German (AG) Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler	207–230
9. Acquisition of diminutives in Hungarian Péter Bodor and Virág Barcza	231–262
10. Diminutives in Finnish child-directed and child speech Klaus Laalo	263–278
11. The (scarcity of) diminutives in Turkish child language F. Nihan Ketrez and Ayhan Aksu-Koç	279–293
12. Acquiring diminutive structures and meanings in Hebrew: An experimental study Anat Hora, Galit Ben-Zvi, Ronit Levie and Dorit Ravid	295–317
13. Diminutives provide multiple benefits for language acquisition Vera Kempe, Patricia J. Brooks and Steven Gillis	319–342
Conclusions Ineta Savickienė and Wolfgang U. Dressler	343–349
Subject index	351–352

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Subjects

Linguistics

Language acquisition

Morphology

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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