María José Albalá
List of John Benjamins publications for which María José Albalá plays a role.
Article
2007. 6. The acquisition of diminutives in Spanish: a useful device. The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective, Savickienė, Ineta and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 155–181
The acquisition of diminutives in Spanish, facilitated by phonoprosodical, morphological and pragmatic means, becomes more than a simple morphopragmatic device to be acquired. We propose that it provides the child with essential cues for grammatical segmentation, which proves very useful in later… read more | Chapter