Publications

Publication details [#40712]

Melzi, Gigliana and Kendall A. King. 2004. Intimacy, Imitation and Language Learning: Spanish Diminutives in Mother-Child Conversation. First Language 24 (2) : 241–261.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

diminutive | imitation | intimacy | language acquisition | mother-child conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This article examines how and why the use of diminutives in everyday conversations by Spanish-speaking Peruvian mothers and their children may play an important role in facilitating conversational interaction and language acquisition.