María Blume
List of John Benjamins publications for which María Blume plays a role.
2023 Pragmatic development in Peruvian children: Modality and lexical development between 8 and 15 months of age Pragmatics & Cognition 30:2, pp. 377–411 | Article
This study examines how 8- to 15-month-old Peruvian children (N = 18) express pragmatic functions in terms of the modality and referential-specificity level of each communicative behaviour. Results show that pragmatic functions were expressed mainly via the vocal modality, primarily with… read more
2021 Gesture development in Peruvianchildren and its relationship with vocalizations and vocabulary Gesture 20:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
We examine gestural development, and correlations between gesture types, vocalizations and vocabulary at ages 8 to 15 months, employing data from MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories for Peruvian Spanish, in the first such study with Peruvian children. Results show (1)… read more
2010 Constructing adequate language documentation for multifaceted cross-linguistic data: A case study from the Virtual Center for Study of Language Acquisition Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 89–108 | Article
This paper confronts the challenge of constructing language documentation and data management in the face of continually expanding sets of cross-linguistic multi-media data arising in collaborative language acquisition research. It describes the development of an infrastructure and methods for… read more
1998 Interactions between pragmatic and syntactic knowledge in the first language acquisition of Spanish null and overt pronominals Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28–30 March, 1996, Lema, José and Esthela Treviño (eds.), pp. 35–52 | Article